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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Drama Arts in Early Childhood Education

  • Unit Code

    AED1240

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine Anne LOVERING

Description

This unit is an introduction to drama learning in the early childhood setting. Students will explore the use of drama as a vehicle for physical, intellectual, social and emotional development in children. Opportunities for students to develop their own drama knowledge and skills will be provided through practical workshops and the use of ICT. The relationship between motivation and management and knowledge of arts practice will also be explored through the drama process.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DSE1110 Unit equivalent to AED1260

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply drama skills and processes to foster physical, intellectual, social and emotional development in young children.
  2. Collaboratively plan and implement drama programs, incorporating relevant technologies where appropriate, for the early childhood phase of learning with reference to the Early Years Learning Framework, WA and National curriculum documents.
  3. Develop a structure which supports young children in participating, creating, expressing and reflecting on personal, social and cultural experiences.
  4. Engage and motivate children in early childhood contexts using drama.
  5. Identify the use of drama as an expressive learning process to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  6. Reflect on drama processes to facilitate creativity in young children.
  7. Use appropriate ICT to produce digital representations of drama work.

Unit Content

  1. Creative Drama, Role Play, Story, Movement and Mime.
  2. Drama as a psycho-social process for all children.
  3. Drama as an expressive and collaborative learning process: creating, conveying and contextualising meaning.
  4. Linking drama pedagogy with relevant technologies.
  5. Planning for drama in early childhood settings with reference to The Early Years Learning Framework, WA and National curriculum documents .
  6. Real and fictional situations through Dramatic Play.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 112 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered12 x 3 hour seminar
Semester 1Not Offered12 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered
Semester 112 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Workshops. Collaborative group work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCreative drama works60%
AssignmentPlanning assignment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCreative drama works60%
AssignmentPlanning assignment40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Drama Arts in Early Childhood Education

  • Unit Code

    AED1240

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine Anne LOVERING

Description

This unit is an introduction to drama learning in the early childhood setting. Students will explore the use of drama as a vehicle for physical, intellectual, social and emotional development in children. Opportunities for students to develop their own drama knowledge and skills will be provided through practical workshops and the use of ICT. The relationship between motivation and management and knowledge of arts practice will also be explored through the drama process.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DSE1110 Unit equivalent to AED1260

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply drama skills and processes to foster physical, intellectual, social and emotional development in young children.
  2. Collaboratively plan and implement drama programs, incorporating relevant technologies where appropriate, for the early childhood phase of learning with reference to the Early Years Learning Framework, WA and National curriculum documents.
  3. Develop a structure which supports young children in participating, creating, expressing and reflecting on personal, social and cultural experiences.
  4. Engage and motivate children in early childhood contexts using drama.
  5. Identify the use of drama as an expressive learning process to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  6. Reflect on drama processes to facilitate creativity in young children.
  7. Use appropriate ICT to produce digital representations of drama work.

Unit Content

  1. Creative Drama, Role Play, Story, Movement and Mime.
  2. Drama as a psycho-social process for all children.
  3. Drama as an expressive and collaborative learning process: creating, conveying and contextualising meaning.
  4. Linking drama pedagogy with relevant technologies.
  5. Planning for drama in early childhood settings with reference to The Early Years Learning Framework, WA and National curriculum documents .
  6. Real and fictional situations through Dramatic Play.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 112 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered12 x 3 hour seminar
Semester 1Not Offered12 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered
Semester 112 x 2 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Workshops. Collaborative group work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCreative drama works60%
AssignmentPlanning assignment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkCreative drama works60%
AssignmentPlanning assignment40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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