Creative and Media Arts in Early Childhood

• • The child at the centre. Arts education in the context of the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
  • The nature of arts experiences and the fundamental role that arts-based learning experiences play in young children's growth and development
  • Belonging: How children tell their stories through the arts. Designing arts learning experiences that explore belonging in the cultural world of arts practice
  • Being: How children explore their world through the arts. Designing sensory exploration and observations through the arts
  • Becoming: How children imagine their future selves through the arts. Designing arts learning experiences based on interpretation, metaphor and imagination
  • Curriculum-based planning: Foundation to Year 3
  • Observation-based planning within a learning advancement cycle
  • Monitoring, documenting and assessing learning. "Learning Stories" as narratives of learning
  • Arts pedagogies: Learning environments, purposeful play and intentional teaching
  • Arts pedagogies: Dialogues for learning built around 'Arts Making' and 'Arts Responding' experiences
  • Arts pedagogies: Stewardship of a safe, ethical and engaging learning environment that supports diverse children's developing agency as individual learners
  • Partnerships and life-long 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-2021

Elective

• CUR-EDU-GCE-2021
• CUR-EDU-GCE-2021

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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• Exercises (50%)
• Presentation (50%)

Current study term: 29 May 22 to 28 Aug 22