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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Dance, Drama and Media Arts Education in Early Childhood
  • Unit Code

    AED6150
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina GRAY

Description

This unit explores the advanced study of integrated arts and contemporary curriculum design to enhance and extend the holistic learning of young children. An emphasis will be placed on drama, dance and media arts from birth to eight. Students will inquire into the complexities of embodied expression through drama and dance, and will analyse and evaluate the suitability of available contemporary media within a range of arts based contexts for learning in the early years. Students will critique the contexts teachers generate for children to express, create and use semiotics to understand their world, and apply evidence-based theory to their own construction of a philosophical stance in relation to teaching of the Arts.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design effective experiences for building creativity and imagination through integration of the five arts strands.
  2. Critically analyse the use of Media Arts for young audiences.
  3. Design effective environments for the Arts and teach performance in drama and dance, as well as how to take the role of the audience.
  4. Critically review current literature on the changing nature of play, and how it is experienced by young children through the Arts.
  5. Demonstrate an ability to use the arts as a vehicle for building cultural belonging and cultural competence.
  6. Analyse children’s use of semiotics to construct, convey and express meaning.
  7. Devise creative and innovative uses of a range of technologies.
  8. Extend inquiry methods with which to investigate, research and extend personal dance, drama and media arts skills, techniques and processes.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary pedagogical approaches to drama, dance and creative movement for children aged birth to eight.
  2. The place of media arts in early childhood.
  3. Contexts for socio-emotional learning, verbal and non-verbal expression through dramatic arts experiences.
  4. Cultural belonging through authentic arts experiences.
  5. Play-based experiences in drama, dance and media arts.
  6. Creative and innovative technologies that support and extend learning experiences in the arts.
  7. The use of semiotics by young children to express meaning and understanding of their world through dance, drama and media arts.
  8. Planning, assessing and reflection using the Early Years Learning Framework, Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines, the National Quality Standard and the WA Curriculum.

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 Offered10 x 3 hour workshopNot 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

A combination of lectures, workshops, guest speakers, videos, practicum, required readings and group and individually assigned work are used to achieve the unit outcomes. Students are required to become independent learners, contributors in workshops and competent team members.

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
AssignmentAssignment40%
Creative WorkCreative work60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment40%
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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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

    Dance, Drama and Media Arts Education in Early Childhood
  • Unit Code

    AED6150
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina GRAY

Description

This unit explores the advanced study of integrated arts and contemporary curriculum design to enhance and extend the holistic learning of young children. An emphasis will be placed on drama, dance and media arts from birth to eight. Students will inquire into the complexities of embodied expression through drama and dance, and will analyse and evaluate the suitability of available contemporary media within a range of arts based contexts for learning in the early years. Students will critique the contexts teachers generate for children to express, create and use semiotics to understand their world, and apply evidence-based theory to their own construction of a philosophical stance in relation to teaching of the Arts.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design effective experiences for building creativity and imagination through integration of the five arts strands.
  2. Critically analyse the use of Media Arts for young audiences.
  3. Design effective environments for the Arts and teach performance in drama and dance, as well as how to take the role of the audience.
  4. Critically review current literature on the changing nature of play, and how it is experienced by young children through the Arts.
  5. Demonstrate an ability to use the arts as a vehicle for building cultural belonging and cultural competence.
  6. Analyse children’s use of semiotics to construct, convey and express meaning.
  7. Devise creative and innovative uses of a range of technologies.
  8. Extend inquiry methods with which to investigate, research and extend personal dance, drama and media arts skills, techniques and processes.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary pedagogical approaches to drama, dance and creative movement for children aged birth to eight.
  2. The place of media arts in early childhood.
  3. Contexts for socio-emotional learning, verbal and non-verbal expression through dramatic arts experiences.
  4. Cultural belonging through authentic arts experiences.
  5. Play-based experiences in drama, dance and media arts.
  6. Creative and innovative technologies that support and extend learning experiences in the arts.
  7. The use of semiotics by young children to express meaning and understanding of their world through dance, drama and media arts.
  8. Planning, assessing and reflection using the Early Years Learning Framework, Kindergarten Curriculum Guidelines, the National Quality Standard and the WA Curriculum.

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 Offered10 x 3 hour workshopNot 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

A combination of lectures, workshops, guest speakers, videos, practicum, required readings and group and individually assigned work are used to achieve the unit outcomes. Students are required to become independent learners, contributors in workshops and competent team members.

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
AssignmentAssignment40%
Creative WorkCreative work60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment40%
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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