School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Drama Arts in Education
  • Unit Code

    AED4272
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Rozita DASS

Description

This is one of three interconnected units providing grounding in the expressive arts for student teachers who wish to strengthen this area of competency in their degree. In this unit, students will work from a practical drama focus to develop confidence, understanding and skill in this aspect of expressive arts. At the same time, they will examine the importance of the arts in children's lives and education, the nature of authentic learning and reflective practice, advocacy, forms of presentation and integration of the Arts. Current research, theory and resources, including technology will support this work. The final module of the unit is common to the three expressive arts units, allowing for one project across the units, or three separate projects, that are integrating and/or group and/or school-based.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed and passed 3 units from AED1240, AED3245 and MUE2240, or 2 units from AED1260 or AED2260 and AED2240 or AED3240.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded VEA4203, AED4262

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a range of skills in performance and stagecraft.
  2. Collaborate in an interconnected Arts experience.
  3. State the relationship of drama education in teaching and learning processes.
  4. Describe aesthetic experiences and their value for students in education.

Unit Content

  1. Explore written and devised texts for sharing.
  2. Performance components of basic theatrical conventions.
  3. Explore the teacher/actor as performer, including use of voice, movement and imagination.
  4. Critical examination of drama theory and methodology used in education.
  5. Explore integrated approaches to the Arts in education.

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 2Not Offered8 x 4 hour seminarNot 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

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops based on collaborative learning processes and self devised performance work research. The practical performance will be presented to children on-campus or in a school setting.

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
AssignmentWritten Assignment40%
Creative WorkCreative Work60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten Assignment40%
Creative WorkCreative Work60%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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