Young children make and communicate meaning about their world in multiple ways, particularly through their engagement with the arts (visual arts, dance, drama, music, storytelling, media) and technology. Building from your developing knowledge of curriculum frameworks pertaining to The Arts and Technology and the general capabilities, you will research contemporary meaning making processes available to young children and explain how teachers support such meaning making in early childhood learning environments as they engage in curriculum decision making. Through the careful design of learning spaces, including natural spaces, you will demonstrate your understanding of children’s development, strengths, needs and interests and also ensure that all children can participate. Reflecting on early childhood pedagogies, you will identify potential issues with ICT use and propose strategies to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching. You will gain personal and practical experience in using the different symbol systems and ways of understanding and representing and making meaning of the world. The unit will equip you with dispositions for valuing the use of The Arts and Technologies for effective teaching and learning and with a working knowledge of some fundamental tools that can be applied across curriculum learning areas in early childhood contexts.
Level | Postgraduate |
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Unit Level | 9 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
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Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 37.5% response rate.
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