ECA435 - Arts Education Discipline Study 5

Unit details

Note: You are seeing the 2020 view of this unit information. These details may no longer be current.
Year:

2020 unit information

Important Update:

Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester.

Last updated: 2 June 2020

Enrolment modes:

Final Year of offer 2020

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)^, CBD*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Dawn Joseph
Cohort rule:

Nil

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 3-hour seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including weekly engagement with materials and responses in discussion forums

Note:

*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery

^Arts discipline methodology specialisations are available for Campus and Cloud (online) study as follows:

  • Visual Arts – available at Burwood (Melbourne) or Cloud (online)
  • Music - available at Burwood (Melbourne) or Cloud (online)
  • Dance – available at Burwood (Melbourne)
  • Drama - available at Burwood (Melbourne)
  • Media – available at Burwood (Melbourne)

Final offering T1 2020, students to instead take ECA735 (see student central for further advice).

Content

This unit is part of a sequence undertaken by students completing an Arts methodology specialisation for teaching in secondary schools (Dance, Drama, Music, Media Arts or Visual Arts). The focus is on identifying contemporary arts curriculum initiatives in the post primary years 7-10 of compulsory education and within various contexts such as the classroom, the whole school and the broader community. Students will consider and critique a range of influences and initiatives in the curriculum of their arts discipline area, with a focus on the Australian Curriculum. The unit prepares students to research and apply skills required to design, and develop lesson and unit sequences. They will develop assessment strategies, resources for teaching the artform, and engage with selected technologies as both a creative process and a teaching and learning medium. Students will develop critical and creative thinking skills, interpersonal communication and intercultural understanding as they analyse, reflect and build a philosophy of arts education.

 

These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit

At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes

ULO1

Critically evaluate pedagogical approaches for years 7 - 10 in the particular Arts specialism that are culturally inclusive

Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO) assessed, will be identified according to individual arts specialism assessment details

ULO2

Research and apply a range of critical inquiry processes in the analysis and evaluation of the particular Arts specialism learning theories and pedagogies. Critically consider and discuss the application of formative and summative assessment processes and practices appropriate to Visual arts/Art education

ULO3

Critically analyse and evaluate the theoretical perspectives and aesthetic theories that inform the particular Arts specialism education practice. Apply the particular Arts specialism specific knowledge and independently and collaboratively apply digital technologies in authentic teaching and learning environments

ULO4

Through portfolios, interpret and research practice and research that demonstrates multimodal teaching for the compulsory years of schooling

ULO5

Identify, locate and develop a range of resources for teaching the particular Arts specialism particularly mixed and multi-media and information and communication technologies

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Trimester 1:
Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Curriculum Development: Appropriate to the specific arts education area, students design, and develop lesson and unit sequences and devise a range of assessment procedures and evaluation processes   50% Information not yet available
Assessment 2 - Portfolio: Appropriate to the specific arts education area students develop and present a portfolio of resource materials including audio/video, or CD presentations, annotated work samples, exemplary curriculum examples and written reports of seminar presentations   50% Information not yet available

 

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ECA435
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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