EDF5023 Creative development for children

This unit explores creative play and artistic activity as important components to children's overall development. You will examine how children express ideas and feelings through drama, music, arts and dance. You will analyse children's creativity, method of thinking and problem-solving skills. You will develop professional skills to plan and implement learning programs that challenge children to expand their reasoning, imagination and understanding of the world, along with encouraging an educational environment that allows children to become more confident of their views and opinions. You will engage in your own arts processes and reflect critically and creatively on these using a range of technologies that extend your knowledge of creative media and techniques appropriate for young children. Practice-led workshops will provide opportunities for individual and collaborative projects to illustrate how you engage, guide, scaffold and assess children's creative expression in an arts-centred curriculum.