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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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Drama Education Foundations

  • Unit Code

    DSE6711

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Claire GRAY

Description

This unit provides and develops strategies for teaching and learning through drama. Students engage (through participation, reflection and application) in drama processes to explore ideas, identities and feelings using a range of skills and techniques. An aesthetic understanding and knowledge of key practices are explored through the drama process. The unit covers drama as a learning process that can be used across the secondary curriculum.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DSE4200, DSE4110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply drama skills and processes within an outcomes approach to Arts Education.
  2. Create a lower secondary drama program.
  3. Critically reflect on their work and the work of others through self and peer assessment exercises.
  4. Demonstrate the use of drama in education by participating in practical drama workshops.
  5. Develop a structure that supports lower secondary students participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in personal, social and cultural contexts.
  6. Discuss the use of drama as an experiential learning process to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  7. Use drama as a means to engage the learner in problem solving.

Unit Content

  1. Personal skills, instructional skills and pedagogy appropriate to effective teaching of drama education.
  2. Working with syllabus documents to create lessons and drama programs (Western Australian Curriculum, SCSA).
  3. Use and application of research on teaching and learning.
  4. Translation of theoretical concepts into practice.
  5. Planning, assessment and evaluation processes in drama education.
  6. Drama knowledge and content as related to the AITSL National Standards
  7. Introduction to a range of drama education resources and networks.
  8. Nature and scope of drama education in lower secondary schools.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and seminars. Blackboard documents and materials. Professional reading. Independent study. Student presentations. Skills based workshops. Use of multi-media technology.

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
AssignmentPlanning and Assessing in Drama60%
Tutorial PresentationMicro-teaching40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Tourelle, L. (2010). Performance : a practical approach to drama. Port Melbourne: Pearson [?]. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/778019922?databaseList=638

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Drama Education Foundations

  • Unit Code

    DSE6711

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Claire GRAY

Description

This unit provides and develops strategies for teaching and learning through drama. Students engage (through participation, reflection and application) in drama processes to explore ideas, identities and feelings using a range of skills and techniques. An aesthetic understanding and knowledge of key practices are explored through the drama process. The unit covers drama as a learning process that can be used across the secondary curriculum.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DSE4200, DSE4110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply drama skills and processes within an outcomes approach to Arts Education.
  2. Create a lower secondary drama program.
  3. Critically reflect on their work and the work of others through self and peer assessment exercises.
  4. Demonstrate the use of drama in education by participating in practical drama workshops.
  5. Develop a structure that supports lower secondary students participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in personal, social and cultural contexts.
  6. Discuss the use of drama as an experiential learning process to create, convey and contextualise meaning.
  7. Use drama as a means to engage the learner in problem solving.

Unit Content

  1. Personal skills, instructional skills and pedagogy appropriate to effective teaching of drama education.
  2. Working with syllabus documents to create lessons and drama programs (Western Australian Curriculum, SCSA).
  3. Use and application of research on teaching and learning.
  4. Translation of theoretical concepts into practice.
  5. Planning, assessment and evaluation processes in drama education.
  6. Drama knowledge and content as related to the AITSL National Standards
  7. Introduction to a range of drama education resources and networks.
  8. Nature and scope of drama education in lower secondary schools.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and seminars. Blackboard documents and materials. Professional reading. Independent study. Student presentations. Skills based workshops. Use of multi-media technology.

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
AssignmentPlanning and Assessing in Drama60%
Tutorial PresentationMicro-teaching40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Tourelle, L. (2010). Performance : a practical approach to drama. Port Melbourne: Pearson [?]. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/778019922?databaseList=638

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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