ECE140 - Creative Arts 1: Young Children and the Arts
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online), CBD* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Fiona Phillips |
| Cohort rule: | Students must be enrolled in course E330, E333 or E334 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECE240 |
| 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 2-hour seminar per week. Students will also engage in a 1-hour online workshop per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | 2 x cloud conferences per trimester 1 x 1-hour online workshop per week 2 x 1-hour online class per trimester (recordings provided) |
| In-person attendance requirements: | Students must attend and participate in face to face practical learning activities at the Waurn Ponds campus on the scheduled day during the trimester |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD) refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute
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Content
In this unit, engagement with online study materials and participation in practical workshops and seminars will enable students to critically appraise current trends in early years arts teaching, learning and research.
The Arts curriculum framework for the unit is underpinned by the aims and learning outcomes outlined in the current National Curriculum and articulated in the Victorian curriculum: The Arts and the Victorian Early Years Framework (VEYLF). This provides an Arts curriculum focus for beginning teachers, in a unit concerned with concepts of how young children actively engage with arts making and responding, of exploring concepts of creativity, and the use of imagination and thinking skills. The unit focuses on children’s continuing arts sequential developmental engagement with Arts learning from the early years through the primary years of schooling. It embraces the concept of the arts as central to children’s individual, sensory, cognitive, emotional, physical development located within diverse socio cultural environments. Students will participate in artistic practice and aesthetic responding processes to inform their professional understanding of theoretical frameworks central to the creative arts processes in visual art, media arts, music and the performing arts. They will apply this knowledge in planning teaching and learning programs that support young children's engagement in and through the arts. They will devise ways to foster learning in and through the arts enabling young children to develop thinking skills and to participate in creative processes, using both traditional arts materials and techniques and selected multimedia and digital technologies to express ideas about themselves and their worlds.
Students will build on the concept that children's exploration and development of personal interwoven narratives and visual, aural, oral and kinaesthetic symbols enable them to express their ideas and feelings and give artistic form to thought and imagination.
Throughout the unit, students will identify and apply teaching approaches and learning strategies including play based and intentional learning relevant to both formal and informal early years’ educational settings. Students will design and develop a Creative Arts program that supports the intellectual, social and cultural development of the whole child.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Critique theories and approaches involved in the creative and performing arts and apply this to knowledge of children’s development from birth through early childhood | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Explain and discuss global education trends and issues particularly in respect to arts education in the early years and can communicate these to a range of education audiences. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Apply knowledge of arts teaching and learning by planing for children’s knowledge acquisition through immersion in the arts, in meaningful contexts and through everyday play based and intentional arts learning environments | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO4 | Apply and adapt bodies of knowledge about arts learning and development and pedagogy that are appropriate for early years education contexts, content areas and diverse learners in the form of curated curriculum ideas, learning materials and resources. | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO5 | Evaluate innovative arts curricula and explain how these are informed by recent research, key theoretical and pedagogical perspectives and issues in early childhood learning | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Demonstrate their own digital literacy and competency with a range of technologies for effective communication with a range of education audiences. | GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1 - E-Portfolio: Arts Advocacy | 2000 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 6 |
| Assessment 2 - Web based Creative Arts Program | 2000 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
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 ECE140
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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