EUB206 Visual Arts and Media Arts Education
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| Unit code: | EUB206 |
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| Equivalent(s): | EAB530 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $578 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,528 |
| International unit fee | $4,572 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUB206 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EAB530 |
| Coordinator: | Shelley Radanovic | shelley.radanovic@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is the first of two curriculum units in the arts and examines the basic content of the Visual and Media Arts and how students learn in these disciplines. The unit provides opportunities for practical exploration of these art forms and theories, and introduces arts pedagogies that emphasise the role of the arts in society and in the education and care of children from birth to 12 years of age. The arts play an important part in early childhood and primary education with the potential to inspire children to reach their creative potential, and to enrich their experiences in prior-to-school and primary school contexts. This Visual and Media Arts unit focuses on the historical, social, emotional, cultural, and educational importance of the arts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Respond to well-known artworks and link to personal art-making.
- Create visual and media artworks and reflect on the process of art-making.
- Draw on academic literature to connect art-making with future planning and teaching practices.
- Consider inclusive art practices to build safe and supportive learning environments.
- Integrate Sustainability with the Arts to support future-focused learning.
Content
In this unit, you will learn:
- Introductory knowledge of the history and philosophy of early childhood and primary school arts education, and the theories and practices which shape arts experiences in communities and educational contexts;
- Development of practical, studio-based visual arts and media arts skills and techniques
- Knowledge of the arts as a communicative language, as you will teach in quality early childhood and primary education arts programs;
- Introduction to Visual Arts and Media Arts disciplines within relevant early childhood and primary education curriculum documents; the Early Years Learning Framework, Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline and the Australian Curriculum;
- Knowledge of appropriate teaching and learning strategies to encourage positive dispositions towards the Visual and Media Arts in early childhood and primary school contexts;
- Development of an understanding of the role of the teacher, and introduction to planning, implementing and evaluating quality arts programs in early childhood and primary school contexts;
- Integrating visual and media arts with sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority; and
- Strategies for managing classroom activities.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn through engaging in:
- lectures
- practical studio-based or online workshops that will involve you in problem-based learning in both the visual arts and media arts. During these sessions, you will participate collaboratively with peers and tutors.
- weekly readings and online materials; asynchronous and synchronous. Online materials will both support and enhance overall learning in the unit.
Your consistent, active engagement with all relevant modes of provided learning opportunities, both theoretical and practical, guided and independent, will prepare and support your achievement of the unit learning outcomes. Assessment tasks are designed as learning experiences, and will help build your personal and professional knowledge and skills in designing quality arts programs for children.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment in this unit is both formative and summative. You will have multiple opportunities for reflection, discussion, and feedback during studio and online sessions from peers and teaching staff. These discussions and feedback will support your completion of two summative assessment tasks. Following submission of the summative assessment tasks, you will receive feedback via marked rubrics.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Folio of Drawings and Reflections -This will require you to connect your personal learning about art making with strategies for encouraging children's meaning making through the visual arts.
- Media Arts Project - This will require you to draw on your understanding and experiences of media arts and sustainability, and apply it to the work of educators in planning learning experiences for children.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Folio of Drawings and Reflections
You will produce an annotated folio of drawings including a reflective evaluation of your Visual Arts learning through a personalised account of art making over time. You will be provided with resources to help you consider how a task such as this supports the learning needs of students across the full range of drawing abilities, and how drawing underpins knowledge and understanding in the Visual Arts. The task provides opportunities for you to consider drawing as meaning-making, and the importance of multiliteracies in early childhood and primary Arts education. Additionally you must consider how you would implement these activities in a classroom.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Media Arts Project
You will create a media arts project that expresses a perspective on an aspect of sustainability. The project will include visual and audio components. You will be provided with resources to help you to use accessible Media Arts technologies.
You will provide a reflection about your work including teaching strategies for media arts, and how digital media can be implemented and used to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The following resource material will be used throughout this unit.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
1 Professional Knowledge: Know students and how they learn
- Understand how students learn
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it
- Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Literacy and numeracy strategies
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Use teaching strategies
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Select and use resources
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Support student participation
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.ED34 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five)
- Knowledgeable: Integrate theory, curriculum and context to plan, implement and evaluate learning and teaching.
Relates to: ULO5, Media Arts Project - Scholarly: Analyse and interpret scholarly and professional literature to inform decision-making in early childhood education and care.
Relates to: ULO3, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Inclusive: Apply inclusive, culturally safe and strengths-based principles to plan for and respond to children, families and communities in early childhood education and care.
Relates to: ULO4, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Reflective: Critically reflect on practice to engage in continuous quality improvement in early childhood contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
ED39 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO4, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Innovative: Create innovative future-focused learning.
Relates to: ULO5, Media Arts Project - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
ED49 Bachelor of Education (Primary)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge of learning areas, learners and learning.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO4, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Innovative: Create innovative future-focused learning.
Relates to: ULO5, Media Arts Project - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Online
| Unit code: | EUB206 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EAB530 |
Overview
This unit is the first of two curriculum units in the arts and examines the basic content of the Visual and Media Arts and how students learn in these disciplines. The unit provides opportunities for practical exploration of these art forms and theories, and introduces arts pedagogies that emphasise the role of the arts in society and in the education and care of children from birth to 12 years of age. The arts play an important part in early childhood and primary education with the potential to inspire children to reach their creative potential, and to enrich their experiences in prior-to-school and primary school contexts. This Visual and Media Arts unit focuses on the historical, social, emotional, cultural, and educational importance of the arts.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Respond to well-known artworks and link to personal art-making.
- Create visual and media artworks and reflect on the process of art-making.
- Draw on academic literature to connect art-making with future planning and teaching practices.
- Consider inclusive art practices to build safe and supportive learning environments.
- Integrate Sustainability with the Arts to support future-focused learning.
Content
In this unit, you will learn:
- Introductory knowledge of the history and philosophy of early childhood and primary school arts education, and the theories and practices which shape arts experiences in communities and educational contexts;
- Development of practical, studio-based visual arts and media arts skills and techniques
- Knowledge of the arts as a communicative language, as you will teach in quality early childhood and primary education arts programs;
- Introduction to Visual Arts and Media Arts disciplines within relevant early childhood and primary education curriculum documents; the Early Years Learning Framework, Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline and the Australian Curriculum;
- Knowledge of appropriate teaching and learning strategies to encourage positive dispositions towards the Visual and Media Arts in early childhood and primary school contexts;
- Development of an understanding of the role of the teacher, and introduction to planning, implementing and evaluating quality arts programs in early childhood and primary school contexts;
- Integrating visual and media arts with sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority; and
- Strategies for managing classroom activities.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn through engaging in:
- lectures
- practical studio-based or online workshops that will involve you in problem-based learning in both the visual arts and media arts. During these sessions, you will participate collaboratively with peers and tutors.
- weekly readings and online materials; asynchronous and synchronous. Online materials will both support and enhance overall learning in the unit.
Your consistent, active engagement with all relevant modes of provided learning opportunities, both theoretical and practical, guided and independent, will prepare and support your achievement of the unit learning outcomes. Assessment tasks are designed as learning experiences, and will help build your personal and professional knowledge and skills in designing quality arts programs for children.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment in this unit is both formative and summative. You will have multiple opportunities for reflection, discussion, and feedback during studio and online sessions from peers and teaching staff. These discussions and feedback will support your completion of two summative assessment tasks. Following submission of the summative assessment tasks, you will receive feedback via marked rubrics.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Folio of Drawings and Reflections -This will require you to connect your personal learning about art making with strategies for encouraging children's meaning making through the visual arts.
- Media Arts Project - This will require you to draw on your understanding and experiences of media arts and sustainability, and apply it to the work of educators in planning learning experiences for children.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Folio of Drawings and Reflections
You will produce an annotated folio of drawings including a reflective evaluation of your Visual Arts learning through a personalised account of art making over time. You will be provided with resources to help you consider how a task such as this supports the learning needs of students across the full range of drawing abilities, and how drawing underpins knowledge and understanding in the Visual Arts. The task provides opportunities for you to consider drawing as meaning-making, and the importance of multiliteracies in early childhood and primary Arts education. Additionally you must consider how you would implement these activities in a classroom.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Media Arts Project
You will create a media arts project that expresses a perspective on an aspect of sustainability. The project will include visual and audio components. You will be provided with resources to help you to use accessible Media Arts technologies.
You will provide a reflection about your work including teaching strategies for media arts, and how digital media can be implemented and used to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The following resource material will be used throughout this unit.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace Health and Safety protocols associated with computer use will apply.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
1 Professional Knowledge: Know students and how they learn
- Understand how students learn
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it
- Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Literacy and numeracy strategies
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Use teaching strategies
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Select and use resources
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Support student participation
Relates to: Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.ED34 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five)
- Knowledgeable: Integrate theory, curriculum and context to plan, implement and evaluate learning and teaching.
Relates to: ULO5, Media Arts Project - Scholarly: Analyse and interpret scholarly and professional literature to inform decision-making in early childhood education and care.
Relates to: ULO3, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Inclusive: Apply inclusive, culturally safe and strengths-based principles to plan for and respond to children, families and communities in early childhood education and care.
Relates to: ULO4, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Reflective: Critically reflect on practice to engage in continuous quality improvement in early childhood contexts.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
ED39 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO4, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Innovative: Create innovative future-focused learning.
Relates to: ULO5, Media Arts Project - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project
ED49 Bachelor of Education (Primary)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge of learning areas, learners and learning.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO4, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project - Innovative: Create innovative future-focused learning.
Relates to: ULO5, Media Arts Project - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO2, Folio of Drawings and Reflections, Media Arts Project