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

    Drama Arts in Education
  • Unit Code

    AED6272
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine Anne LOVERING

Description

In this unit, students will work collaboratively from a practical and experiential drama focus to develop confidence, understanding and skills in performance and stagecraft. Concurrently, students will critically reflect on the role of the Arts in children's lives and education and the value of Arts' integration. Students will be given the opportunity to analyse and synthesise abstract drama concepts to create and communicate meaningful performance work to an authentic audience. The work will be supported through the investigation and analysis of historical and contemporary pedagogical approaches in drama education.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to AED4271

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and apply a range of skills in performance and stagecraft.
  2. Critically analyse and collaborate in an interconnected Arts experience.
  3. Investigate, analyse and justify the relationship of drama education in teaching and learning processes.
  4. Reflect critically on aesthetic Arts' experiences and justify their value for students in education.

Unit Content

  1. Written and devised texts as a means of interacting and communicating with authentic audiences.
  2. Performance components of basic theatrical conventions.
  3. Teacher/actor as performer, including use of voice, movement and imagination.
  4. Historical and contemporary approaches to drama theory and methodology used in education.
  5. 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 ECUs 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 through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshop based on creative and collaborative learning processes and self-devised performance work research. Application of performance skills and arts research and knowledge demonstrated in a practical performance.

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.

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

    Drama Arts in Education
  • Unit Code

    AED6272
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christine Anne LOVERING

Description

In this unit, students will work collaboratively from a practical and experiential drama focus to develop confidence, understanding and skills in performance and stagecraft. Concurrently, students will critically reflect on the role of the Arts in children's lives and education and the value of Arts' integration. Students will be given the opportunity to analyse and synthesise abstract drama concepts to create and communicate meaningful performance work to an authentic audience. The work will be supported through the investigation and analysis of historical and contemporary pedagogical approaches in drama education.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to AED4271

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and apply a range of skills in performance and stagecraft.
  2. Critically analyse and collaborate in an interconnected Arts experience.
  3. Investigate, analyse and justify the relationship of drama education in teaching and learning processes.
  4. Reflect critically on aesthetic Arts' experiences and justify their value for students in education.

Unit Content

  1. Written and devised texts as a means of interacting and communicating with authentic audiences.
  2. Performance components of basic theatrical conventions.
  3. Teacher/actor as performer, including use of voice, movement and imagination.
  4. Historical and contemporary approaches to drama theory and methodology used in education.
  5. 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 ECUs 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 through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshop based on creative and collaborative learning processes and self-devised performance work research. Application of performance skills and arts research and knowledge demonstrated in a practical performance.

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.

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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