Course overview
This course aims to develop deep understanding of traditional, contemporary and emerging arts content and practices, their application to the curriculum and the role/s of a generalist primary school teacher with an arts curriculum specialisation.
- Visual Representation and Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Diversity of Aboriginal Arts Styles
- Art in Your Community
- Sculptures and 3D Forms
- Images as Object and Inclusive Learning Design
- Graphic, Print and Web Media
- Pictorial Stories – Story Telling Through Pictures
- Audio Visual Formats
- Audio Media
- Multimedia Storytelling
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role and function of the arts in diverse contemporary communities and their impact upon young people
- Identify traditional and contemporary approaches to the arts in curriculum decision making and research
- Experience creative body-based learning in physical, digital and virtual spaces
- Apply current approaches to technology in working with digital and media arts
- Identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts as intrinsic to Australian histories and cultural knowledge
- Articulate the intrinsic and instrumental value of visual arts, media arts, dance, drama and music in the school curriculum
- Demonstrate reflective practice in working as an active teacher/artist educator with young people