Creative connections 2: Music and performing arts

This unit extends your understandings developed in EDF1063 about the role art-making plays in childhood with a focus on musical and performing arts creativities. You will investigate the relationship between creative play, music, and the performing arts as vital means of belonging, being and becoming from birth to age 12, and across cultures. You will develop competencies as teachers, artists and researchers through practice-based study of musical, bodily and non-verbal forms of expression. These experiences support your theoretical understandings of fundamental sonic and kinaesthetic ways of thinking and learning in childhood. A foundation of this work is socially engaged practice that connects performing arts teaching and learning to family, community and cultures. You will address the need for culturally responsive teaching, particularly in regard to Australian First Nations and Oceanic arts and culture. Across the unit you will engage with a range of strategies and pedagogical approaches to music and performing arts teaching that develop your capacities as research-led educators.