Arts Across the Early Childhood Curriculum

Course aim

To enable students to design, apply and evaluate arts across the curriculum for children from Birth to 8 years.

Course content

Students will extend and apply knowledge of principles and processes of teaching and learning in the arts, children’s development in the arts and children’s cognitive competence in relation to the arts. Students will develop competencies in using arts materials and resources, in their understandings of multimodal learning in the arts, and in arts curriculum planning, implementation and evaluation. They will reflect on diversity in the arts in Australia and educational issues relating to the arts.

Textbook(s)

Dinham, J., & Chalk, B. 2018, It's arts play: Young children belonging, being and becoming through the arts., Oxford University Press

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 2054	Foundations in Arts Education

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Workshop	3 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
External (Online workshops)	3 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Presentation, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.