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Undergraduate CUR-EDC487-2021

Creative Literacies

Get set to specialise in teaching literacy and English. Explore how you can inspire and engage young pupils through using big ideas and the power of creativity. Understand lesson planning, design and relevant teaching methods.

From

$493 $743

Your upfront cost: $0

International student?

Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 30 Aug 2021
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Start your career with Curtin’s globally recognised courses and extensive industry connections. Through OUA, our online courses offer an interactive and collaborative learning experience that gets you the same degree as if you studied on campus. Curtin is a global university with a vibrant culture of innovation and collaboration and is ranked in the top one per cent of universities worldwide.

QS RANKING 2021

13

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

13

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. understanding and identify ways that literacy learning can be creative and adventurous
  2. research and interpret the role and power of creativity and new directions in literacies to inspire and engage children
  3. compile literacy learning opportunities and literacy resources and critique their potential for creativity.
Topics covered
    • An introduction to teaching English creatively.
    • Big Ideas, where do they come from?
    • What elements of creativity can be developed through talk?
    • Developing children’s creativity through drama
    • How storying and exploring fiction supports creativity.
    • How to creatively engage young writers
    • What is possible for literacy development through the creative arts?
    • Playfully and pleasurably exploring poetry
    • The great outdoors and its impact on literacy and creativity.
    • Literacy across the curriculum – exploring nonfiction as a creative exercise.
    • Exploring ways to plan and teach creatively.
    • Setting the scene for creative literacies
    • Reflection and review
Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

This subject is one of a set of three undergraduate option units to prepare Initial Teacher Educators (ITE) to specialise in teaching literacy and English. This unit emphasises the power of creativity to support adventurous literacies and the ways in which a teacher can use big ideas to inspire and engage children. ITE will explore, reflect critically and develop resources about new directions in literacies. They will envisage what is possible in today’s classroom and how to inspire and enhance teaching of creative literacies.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

Assessments

  • Critical reflection (50%)
  • Report and presentation (50%)
Textbooks

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

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Bachelor of Education Primary Education

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Bachelor of Education Secondary Education

3 available majors
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  • The Arts Education Major (Visual Arts)
  • English Education Major
  • HASS (Geography) Education Major

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