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Children are rich in creative potential. Creativity is integral to children鈥檚 communication, self-expression and meaning-making, and is an integral requirement for learners to think broadly, deeply and draw upon behaviours and dispositions such as imagination, persistence and inquisitiveness. Supporting opportunities through their involvement in the Arts allows children the opportunity to develop their ideas and communicate a sense of their place in the world through engagement in multi-modal arts based experiences of music, dance, drama, visual art and media arts.

This course investigates creativity as an important disposition in the child, and the role that creativity plays in their learning and development. By adopting an Arts based approach, pre-service early childhood educators explore some of the many ways that young children (birth to eight) express ideas and make meaning by engaging in visual, auditory, relational, naturalistic, kinaesthetic and musical experiences. Underpinned by principles of supporting the creative, inquiring and imaginative child, pre-service educators will gain an understanding of both content and pedagogies in traditional and contemporary arts practices. The course explores how the arts and creative process can serve many purposes, including providing children with opportunities to draw upon their unique intelligences, multiple communication styles, and diverse backgrounds and cultures to make-meaning.

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course in accordance with the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership鈥檚 (AITSL) Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST). On successful completion of this course pre-service educators should be able to:

1. understand the characteristics and role of creativity and how these pursuits affect the learning and development of the child (APST 1.1, 1.2);
2. explain the role of play and the environment as vehicles for supporting creative thinking, inquiry and imagination in young children (APST 1.2);
3. apply arts based approaches (content, a range of teaching strategies and resources, including ICT) for meaning making (learning) and self-expression (APST 2.1, 3.3, 3.4);
4. analyse the role of the arts in affording children the opportunity to communicate in multiple ways and share their history, culture and languages, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (APST 2.4).