Unit details
ECP711 - The Arts in Early Childhood and Primary Education
| Offered at: | (B, G, X) |
|---|---|
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| Offerings: | Trimester 1 and Trimester 3 (B, G* only Tri 3) |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit chair: | J Grenfell |
| Campus contact: | J Grenfell (X), E Hirsh (B) |
| Contact hours: | 3 hours per week or equivalent |
| Note: *offered intensively on the Burwood campus Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications. | |
Content
Students will engage in arts processes and reflect critically and creatively on these, using a range of technologies to extend their knowledge of creative media and techniques in arts disciplines and within an integrated arts framework. The arts experience involves the ability to develop skills to explore ideas, and to communicate and interpret meaning within diverse social and cultural contexts. This includes visual, spoken, written, aural, kinaesthetic, multi-modal and aesthetic ways of knowing and representing. Practice-led individual and collaborative activities and/or projects provide opportunities to plan, engage, scaffold and assess children’s creative ideas and expression in an arts-centred curriculum. Students will demonstrate and evaluate their skills and knowledge in the above areas during professional experience placements in early childhood settings or primary schools.
Assessment
Arts Resource Portfolio 50%
The portfolio consists of a range of dance/movement, drama, music, visual art and/or computer workshop activities, annotated and underpinned by an arts education theoretical statement.
Arts Education Report. Development and implementation and assessment of Arts curriculum packages 50%
Develop, implement and evaluate appropriate sequence of arts learning activities or an integrated curriculum with arts as part of an overall program (to be negotiated). The activities should include assessment strategies, which will be implemented in a relevant setting and evaluated in a reflective report. The task will require an approach integrated with ECP 712 Promoting Wellbeing through Health and Movement the specifics of which will be outlined in the unit guide for both units
Unit Fee Information
| Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Student Contribution Rate*** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
| $706 | $565 | $565 | $1872 | $2394 |
* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.
