Creative and Media Arts in Early Childhood

• • Nature and function of arts experiences in early childhood education
  • Belonging: How children tell their stories through arts making and responding experiences
  • Being: How children explore their world through the arts
  • Becoming: How children imagine their future selves through the arts
  • Curriculum planning through a learning advancement cycle
  • Monitoring, documenting and assessing learning
  • Arts pedagogies to develop diverse children’s agency as individual learners: purposeful play and intentional teaching; dialogues for learning; stewardship of a safe, ethical and engaging learning environment
  • Partnerships and lifelong learning strategies for effective educators.

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-MTE-MAS-2022

Elective

• CUR-EDU-GCE-2022
• CUR-EDU-GCE-2022

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative, Access to video creation and editing software

This subject prepares Early Childhood Educators to design and implement authentic arts education programs in Early Childhood Education and Care settings. Play-based learning principles will be applied to this design process and experiences will be developmentally appropriate. An inquiry approach that encompasses the development of Arts Literacies across the Creative and Media Arts curriculum is taken.

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• Portfolio of arts teaching content and resourcing and planning (60%)
• Report on child learning (40%)