Course overview
This course will enable students to design, apply and evaluate arts across the curriculum for children from Birth to 8 years. 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.
Course learning outcomes
- Create a diverse and balanced arts program appropriate for particular age groups/groupings particular age groups/groupings
- Employ a range of arts resources to enhance children's learning experiences in and through the arts curriculum decision making
- Apply and explain principles and processes of learning in and through the arts across the curriculum experience in the arts
- Describe and discuss children's creative and aesthetic development
- Locate and apply Australian and international research and scholarly opinion in curriculum decision-making
- Critically debate issues in arts curriculum