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Creativity and the Arts: Contemporary Perspectives
Postgraduate | MAQ-ECHX828 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
Focus on the role of the arts in early childhood. Understand how children explore, create and communicate about their world through music and movement, visual arts and drama. Analyse and reflect on materials, processes and repertoire.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Creativity and the Arts: Contemporary Perspectives
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate a critical appreciation of the expert body of knowledge focusing on the arts in early childhood.
- demonstrate a sound understanding of the ways in which young children use art forms to explore, create and communicate about their worlds.
- critically analyse and reflect on materials, processes and repertoire that underpin creative arts learning experiences in early childhood.
- demonstrate specialist expertise in facilitating a range of creative arts learning experiences with young children.
- Unit overview What constitutes the arts in early childhood? The nature of creativity
- The arts as symbol systems
- Arts literacies, bodies of knowledge, the importance of metalanguage
- Music: musicking in early childhood, musical elements, repertoire (birth-3 yrs)
- Music: musical development, generative approaches to planning, repertoire (3-5yrs)
- Music, approaches to planning and authentic assessment, children's voices in assessment, effort actions and embodied symbols
- Drama: forms and conventions of drama, dramatic play in early childhood
- Drama: working in role: process drama
- Drama: pathways into drama: finding the pretext
- Visual Arts: ways of knowing - disrupting dichotomies, histories and tensions in visual arts, education, image(s) of the child in teaching
- Visual arts: graphic languages & symbolic meaning making
- Visual arts: questions of creativity, the role of the teacher, the environment, resources and materials, time
- Reflections and connections: integration, connection and guaranteeing integrity
This subject was previously known as ECEX828 Creativity and the Arts: Contemporary Perspectives.
This subject focuses on the pivotal role of the arts in early childhood, particularly in the domains of music and movement, visual arts, and drama. Students are provided opportunities to enhance their capacity to use diverse resources that underpin high quality arts education. The subject provides a forum through which to critique contemporary issues in arts education, drawing on current research in early childhood and allied fields. Students will investigate current specialist pedagogies as a basis for developing personal approaches to the provision of early childhood arts education.
- Applied task (1500 words) (30%)
- Reading journal (2000 words) (40%)
- Critique (1500 words) (30%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
one of
- MAQ-ECHX600-Early Childhood Philosophy and Pedagogy
MAQ-ECEX600 (Not currently available)
and one of
- MAQ-ECHX602-Early Childhood Development
MAQ-ECEX602 (Not currently available)
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:
MAQ-ECEX828 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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