Visual and Media Arts Education

About this subject

What you'll learn

• Topics covered

  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons to address visual arts elements and principles
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons to stimulate visual perception and understanding
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons to stimulate creativity, imagination and self-expression
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - designing lessons that incorporate design strategies and processes (storyboard and comics)
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - creative and effective ways of designing Arts Responding activities with reference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks
  • Australian Curriculum: The Arts - planning a program (Unit of Inquiry module)
  • Conceiving lesson planning and assessment within an improvement cycle
  • Effective preparation and pedagogy for arts education
  • Dialogues for learning in a learner-centred and inquiry-based learning context
  • Stewardship of the ethical, safe, functional, inclusive and culturally sensitive learning environment that promotes children’s agency
  • The role of partnerships and life-long learning strategies in delivering good quality arts education
  • Positioning professional arts education understandings and capabilities within the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers framework

• Description

  This subject was previously known as EDP263 Visual and Media Arts Education

  Planning and pedagogy of authentic forms of arts education are addressed through the curriculum subjects of Media and Visual Arts. The school curriculum provides the framework for planning sequential, inquiry-based and engaging learning opportunities for primary school children. Experiential learning opportunities and reflective practices facilitate the development of practical understanding of the scope and nature of arts learning across the primary school years. Personal media and visual arts literacy are promoted as the foundation for teaching within a lifelong learning framework. Pedagogical understandings and practices that support the development of children’s identities and agency through their creativity, self-expression, meaning-making and communication of ideas are studied, practiced with children, and reviewed using an improvement cycle framework.

  *** You will be required to locate a small range of art materials to complete art activities. ***

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• Assessments

  • ePortfolio of Arts Making and Arts Responding (50%)
  • Arts Documentation (50%)

• Textbooks

  For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).

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Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-SAR-DEG-2023 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (The Arts - Visual Arts)
• CUR-BED-DEG-2023 - Bachelor of Education (Primary Education)

Elective

• CUR-FAST-DEG-2023 - Fast track your Curtin on campus study

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:

• CUR-EDC153-Performing Arts for Educators

Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-EDP263 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements