Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Coursework Only Visual Arts Education: Complete a set of practical and written art assignments Music Education: Complete a set of written music assignments |
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Description This module recognises the importance of the arts to human development, creativity, and wellbeing. In the visual arts and music components students engage with particular strands of the arts primary curriculum to increase their confidence and competence in music and art. Visual Arts Education focuses on an introduction to the strands, drawing, paint and colour, and creating form with clay. Music Education focuses on an introduction to the strands, listening and responding, composing, and performing, via a practical exploration of the elements of music. Students develop insight into children’s meaning-making in the arts and are introduced to the practical and theoretical aspects of teaching children at primary level. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate a growing confidence and competence in basic skills in music and art making in ways that support the development of student teachers' ability to provide for the learning needs of all pupils. 2. Design, teach and assess imaginative, innovative, and engaging activities for children’s learning in music and visual art, based on their critical understanding of the primary visual art and music curriculums and on their working knowledge of the strands of activity and concepts. 3. Introduce children to music-making and art-making with an awareness and understanding of children’s diverse needs and learning processes. 4. Respond insightfully to music and artworks from diverse historic and cultural contexts, using appropriate specialist vocabulary in the separate subject areas. 5. Use a developing repertoire of music and art works with children to develop and enhance their appreciation of music and art. 6. Encourage children to express meaning through music and art-making. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Visual Arts and Music EducationVisual Arts and Music Education focus on unique ways of learning and engaging with the world. While they each have discrete and distinctive modes of engagement and practice, they both draw on aesthetic engagement with auditory and visual media, developing children’s sensitivity to the beauty and power of artworks. They provide an inclusive and non-verbal mode of expression and symbolic meaning-making which can cross cultural and linguistic boundaries and create historical, social and geographical links. In this module through active appreciation, enquiry, expression and creation in music and visual arts, students acquire a basis for subject specific pedagogical content knowledge necessary for effective teaching in primary schools. In tandem, they develop an understanding of the power of the arts to shape and express personal and communal identities, connect and engage participants beyond surface meaning and encourage ways of working that are open-ended while drawing on and affirming a growing set of skills and competencies in ways that are ultimately personally satisfying. An indication of the content of the individual strands of Visual Arts and Music Education module is provided below.Visual Arts EducationTeaching of basic art and design skills focusing on three of the six art strands and development of visual awareness and understanding of the visual arts elements: 1. Drawing: Looking at and responding to drawings by other artists, observing and photographing the visual elements of line, tone, colour, shape and texture in the environment. Experimentation with mark making using different drawing instruments, drawing from observation, and drawing from imagination, with attention to the visual elements of line, tone and texture. 2. Creating Form: Looking at and responding to examples of form, natural and man-made. Creating form with an emphasis on shape, balance, texture and line using various media, e.g., clay, papier mâché, fabric and fibre. 3. Paint and Colour: Looking at and responding to colour in the environment, and to the element of colour in the work of artists. Experimenting with colour mixing and matching using primary colours in paint and other media. Working from the imagination, and through close observation of colour and tone in natural and man-made objects. Looking at and Responding to the work of artists in each of the strands and to natural art forms in the environment. An understanding of Curriculum Art in Primary Education 1. The creative process in art making: observing and interacting with a child engaging in a drawing activity. 2. Planning inclusive art activities for (a) small group teaching (b) whole class teaching. 3. Children's art and how it develops. 4. Use of photography, animation, and digital imagery. 5. Display of 2D and 3D art work.Music EducationThe course is provided through two main components 1. Developing a practical understanding of the Strands and Concepts of the Music Curriculum Through 12 hours of mixed workshops/lectures students gain an understanding of the principles underpinning the primary music curriculum and how the strands and concepts can be used as a framework for planning. They critically engage with the idea of music expressed in the curriculum and the understanding of a spiral curriculum in music that it contains. They further their understanding of embodied learning and knowing and of recognising and observing children’s tacit knowledge in music through practical work with the eight music concepts. They develop an understanding of how they can use a range of music materials to develop children’s ‘sense’ of these music concepts. 2. Child Centred methods of teaching and working with notation This set of workshops introduces students to an expanded concept of music notation and of using musical representation in gesture and graphic and other symbols to develop children’s music understanding while listening, performing and composing. They further develop their own skill in using standard notation. 3. Planning the Music Lesson As they gain a more thorough understanding of the strands and concepts of the Primary Music Curriculum, students explore the components of a successful music lesson. Through a suite of practical exercises built around the three strands of Listening and Responding, Composing and Performing, they develop an understanding of how they can use a range of music materials to develop children’s ‘sense’ of the nine music concepts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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