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 483-239 Learning Area: Arts 2

Credit Points

10.0

Coordinator

Kate Donelan, Marg Stephens

Prerequisites

Learning Area: Arts 1 or equivalent

Semester

All year

Contact

A series of workshops totalling 36 hours

Subject Description

This subject extends student's study and practice of the art forms of Drama, Music and Visual Arts within an educational and cultural context. Students will be introduced to contemporary theories and practices related to primary arts education. The scope and nature of teaching, learning and assessing the arts in the primary school will be examined. Students will extend their understanding of children's artistic development through observation and research. Students will develop a thorough understanding of the Arts Curriculum and Standards Frameworks and the application of the sub-strands: creating, making and presenting, arts criticism and aesthetics and past and present contexts to primary arts curriculum. Students will plan, implement and evaluate Drama, Music and Visual Arts curricular appropriate to the primary school.

Assessment

Visual arts folio, performance projects, assignments, including school based curriculum projects, equivalent to 3000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • Board of Studies, Curriculum and Standards Framework: The Arts. Melbourne 1995.


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