Module: Embodiment, Education & the Arts

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Embodiment, Education & the Arts
Module Code	AP303 (ITS) / EDP1008 (Banner)
Faculty	DCU Institute of Education	School	Arts Education & Movement
Module Co-ordinator	Paula Murphy
Module Teachers	Paula Murphy
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

This module will focus on the relationship between embodiment, drama education and the arts. The strategies and methodologies used will focus initially on developing an embodied and holistic awareness in the person of the student teacher, which will have implications not only for approaches to curriculum, but also for his/her quality of presence, relationship and communication in the classroom. Drawing on the field of somatic movement education, the sessions will initially focus on explorations in movement and the senses. As the weeks progress, participants will observe the impact of these explorations in pedagogical or performative applications.

Learning Outcomes

1. • Engage with his/her experience of the body-mind continuum through the principles and practices of somatic education.
2. • Identify somatic principles of particular relevance to creativity and arts education.
3. • Interrogate the relationship between his/her personal and professional experience in the context of principles of somatic education
4. • Reference his/her experience in the context of recommended literature in the field.
5. Explore the role of the outdoors in the somatic education process.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Seminars	22	No Description
Assignment Completion	103	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	n/a	100%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Augusto Boal: 1992, Games for Actors and Non-actors, Routledge, London, 9780415061551
Patrice Baldwin: 2012, With Drama in Mind, A&C Black, 9781441169358
Mike Fleming,John O'Toole,Liora Bresler: 2017, The Routledge International Handbook of the Arts and Education, 'Signs, Meanding and Embodiment', Routledge, 9781138577275
Paula Murphy,Margaret O'Keeffe: 2006, Discovering Drama, 4, Gill Education, Dublin, 9780717139347
Margaret Robertson,Rod Gerber: 2001, Children's Ways of Knowing, Children and drama; knowing differently, Acer Press, 0864313497

Other Resources

None