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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 2

  • Unit Code

    AED2240

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Julia Jasen WREN

Description

Students will continue to engage with teaching and learning through the Arts. This unit offers further opportunities for experiencing how significant issues can be explored through a repertoire of Arts learning processes, techniques and languages. Students will develop frameworks for critical and creative thinking through the implementation of key arts processes. Students will further enhance their understanding of a range of art forms which may include drama, visual arts and music and how the techniques and processes relevant to each are a significant component of education.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AED3106, AED3240

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate how the Arts inform contemporary learning processes to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  2. Use structures that support children participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in a personal, social and cultural context.
  3. Use the Arts as a means to engage learners in problem solving and to develop appreciation of multiple perspectives.
  4. Demonstrate skills, techniques and processes which enable exploration of all areas of the curriculum.
  5. Further deepen and develop aesthetic understandings.
  6. Demonstrate how the Arts offer unique ways of thinking, exploring and communicating.
  7. Critical reflection of own work and work of others.
  8. Communicate in oral and written forms an understanding of the Arts as an inter-cultural process.

Unit Content

  1. Arts in education through the processes of: expressing; creating, exploring and developing ideas; using skills techniques, technologies and processes; responding and reflecting; using arts criticism; linking the role of arts to society.
  2. ICT skills in presenting.
  3. The Arts Curriculum Frameworks and supporting documents.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will participate in lectures, tutorials and workshops with a strong emphasis on the practical application of knowledge, skills and understandings. Group collaboration and discussion. Written assignment.

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 and Presentation50%
PresentationAssignment and Presentation50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment and Presentation50%
PresentationAssignment and Presentation50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Russell-Bowie, D. (2005). MMADD about the arts: An introduction to primary arts education. (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson.

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 2

  • Unit Code

    AED2240

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Julia Jasen WREN

Description

Students will continue to engage with teaching and learning through the Arts. This unit offers further opportunities for experiencing how significant issues can be explored through a repertoire of Arts learning processes, techniques and languages. Students will develop frameworks for critical and creative thinking through the implementation of key arts processes. Students will further enhance their understanding of a range of art forms which may include drama, visual arts and music and how the techniques and processes relevant to each are a significant component of education.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded AED3106, AED3240

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate how the Arts inform contemporary learning processes to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  2. Use structures that support children participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in a personal, social and cultural context.
  3. Use the Arts as a means to engage learners in problem solving and to develop appreciation of multiple perspectives.
  4. Demonstrate skills, techniques and processes which enable exploration of all areas of the curriculum.
  5. Further deepen and develop aesthetic understandings.
  6. Demonstrate how the Arts offer unique ways of thinking, exploring and communicating.
  7. Critical reflection of own work and work of others.
  8. Communicate in oral and written forms an understanding of the Arts as an inter-cultural process.

Unit Content

  1. Arts in education through the processes of: expressing; creating, exploring and developing ideas; using skills techniques, technologies and processes; responding and reflecting; using arts criticism; linking the role of arts to society.
  2. ICT skills in presenting.
  3. The Arts Curriculum Frameworks and supporting documents.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will participate in lectures, tutorials and workshops with a strong emphasis on the practical application of knowledge, skills and understandings. Group collaboration and discussion. Written assignment.

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 and Presentation50%
PresentationAssignment and Presentation50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment and Presentation50%
PresentationAssignment and Presentation50%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2011). Education in the arts: Principles and practices for teaching. (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
  • Russell-Bowie, D. (2005). MMADD about the arts: An introduction to primary arts education. (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson.

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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