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.

  • Unit Title

    The Arts in Education 1
  • Unit Code

    AED1260
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine Anne LOVERING

Description

This unit provides an introduction to teaching and learning through the arts. The unit offers opportunities for insight and experience into how significant issues can be explored using a repertoire of unique learning processes, techniques and languages specific to the arts. Students will develop critical and creative thinking by using arts processes of expressing, interpreting and communicating ideas and feelings. The techniques and processes relevant to the art forms of drama, visual arts and music will be introduced, thereby developing an understanding of how these art forms are an essential component of education.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AED3105, DSE1115, AED2260 Unit equivalent to AED1240

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe how the Arts can be used as a key contemporary learning process to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  2. Demonstrate productive use of ICT to show how the Arts can be offer unique ways of thinking, exploring and communicating.
  3. Use Arts skills, techniques and processes to explore all areas of the curriculum.
  4. Communicate orally and in written form how the Arts offer the opportunity to explore and increase the understanding of cultural tools that are available such as language, values and traditions.
  5. Critically reflect on their work and the work of others.
  6. Apply the Arts as a means to engage the learner in problem solving and appreciate multiple perspectives.
  7. Develop a structure that supports children participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in a personal, social and cultural context.
  8. Deepen and develop aesthetic understandings.

Unit Content

  1. Arts in education through the processes of expressing, creating, exploring and developing ideas.
  2. Linking the role of arts to society, critiquing responding and reflecting.
  3. Arts skills techniques, technologies and processes.
  4. ICT skills development.
  5. The Arts Curriculum Frameworks and supporting documents.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminar13 x 3 hour seminar7 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminar activities and discussion. Workshops. Presentations using ICT.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 60%
PresentationPresentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 60%
PresentationPresentation40%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    The Arts in Education 1
  • Unit Code

    AED1260
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine Anne LOVERING

Description

This unit provides an introduction to teaching and learning through the arts. The unit offers opportunities for insight and experience into how significant issues can be explored using a repertoire of unique learning processes, techniques and languages specific to the arts. Students will develop critical and creative thinking by using arts processes of expressing, interpreting and communicating ideas and feelings. The techniques and processes relevant to the art forms of drama, visual arts and music will be introduced, thereby developing an understanding of how these art forms are an essential component of education.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AED3105, DSE1115, AED2260 Unit equivalent to AED1240

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe how the Arts can be used as a key contemporary learning process to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  2. Demonstrate productive use of ICT to show how the Arts can be offer unique ways of thinking, exploring and communicating.
  3. Use Arts skills, techniques and processes to explore all areas of the curriculum.
  4. Communicate orally and in written form how the Arts offer the opportunity to explore and increase the understanding of cultural tools that are available such as language, values and traditions.
  5. Critically reflect on their work and the work of others.
  6. Apply the Arts as a means to engage the learner in problem solving and appreciate multiple perspectives.
  7. Develop a structure that supports children participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in a personal, social and cultural context.
  8. Deepen and develop aesthetic understandings.

Unit Content

  1. Arts in education through the processes of expressing, creating, exploring and developing ideas.
  2. Linking the role of arts to society, critiquing responding and reflecting.
  3. Arts skills techniques, technologies and processes.
  4. ICT skills development.
  5. The Arts Curriculum Frameworks and supporting documents.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminar13 x 3 hour seminar7 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminar activities and discussion. Workshops. Presentations using ICT.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 60%
PresentationPresentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 60%
PresentationPresentation40%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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