465-121 CFS12P Arts 1 (FT)

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Robert Brown

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

This class is offered in external mode and there will be no regular class contact

Subject Description

This subject introduces the arts in early childhood, focusing on dance/music and visual arts and their role in the world of the young child. Connections will be made with a variety of theoretical perspectives, drawn from human development, symbolic communication, education, aesthetics and cross-cultural studies. The subject will investigate theoretical and practical studies in areas of arts-based teaching and learning within the early childhood environment.

Assessment

Essays and assignments totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • S Wright (ed), The Arts, Young Children, and Learning. Pearson Education 2003.


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