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
  • Being: Designing sensory exploration and observations through the arts as part of young children's development, learning and identity formation
  • Belonging: Designing arts learning experiences that explore belonging in the cultural world of arts practice as part of young children's development
  • Becoming: Designing arts learning experiences as ways of knowing, meaning-making and communication of ideas as part of young children's development
  • Safe, ethical learning context; Practical preparation and pedagogical approaches to support and document learning
  • Learning stories and evaluating a child's learning using a cyclic process of observation, assessment and responsive planning
  • Productive relationships and dialogues for learning in the arts
  • Inclusive education - diversity and differentiated learning
  • Planning play and/or inquiry-based arts learning programs
  • Partnerships and life-long learning strategies for effective educators
  • Reflection

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

Special requirements

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  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%)