Course overview
For preservice teachers to design and implement a collaborative arts project to demonstrate their arts content knowledge with a focus on production processes to draw arts domains together in a cohesive project. Preservice teachers will undertake practice-led arts workshops focusing on creative processes and pedagogical content leading to a presentation. Reflective documentation will include application to diverse learning contexts with connections to other key learning areas. Approaches to production include critical thinking with pedagogical strategies for inclusion and design thinking.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically reflect on the role and function of the arts as a means of communication for young people in diverse contemporary communities
- Identify and research traditional and contemporary approaches to production, presentation and audiences within arts curricula
- Research and develop arts creative processes and practices to produce and present performance, presentation or display for an audience
- Critically describe current approaches to technologies for working in the arts in relation to production, presentation and audience
- Identify cultural knowledge and influences intrinsic to the development and creation of art works
- Critically reflect on practice as an active arts educator