483-103 Learning Area(EC): Arts 1

This subject introduces the arts in early childhood focusing on the visual and performing arts (including drama, music and dance). Using play, aesthetic learning and cognition as central themes, students will engage in workshop experiences to develop practical skills in arts making and arts responding. On this basis, they will engage in challenging and creative experiences in and across the arts disciplines. Students will examine ways in which children make and respond to arts works and will reflect on their own creative processes. They will examine teaching strategies that support the sensory and aesthetic development of young children, their creative expression and cognitive development.

Assignments and presentations totalling 4000 words.

• Board of Studies, Curriculum and Standards Framework II. Victoria, 1999.
• L Choksy et al, Teaching Music in the Twentieth Century. Prentice-Hall NJ, 1986.
• J B Koster, Growing Artists: Teaching Art to Young Children. Delmar, NY, 1997.
• K Warren, Hooked on Drama - The Theory and Practice of Drama in Early Childhood. Sydney, Macquarie University, 1992.
• J Winston and M Tandy, Beginning Drama 4-11. London, David Fulton Publishers, 1998.
• S Wright (ed), The Arts in Early Childhood. Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1998.