Postgraduate - UnitEDF5180 - Visual art and design education in the secondary years 1B

This unit builds on coursework undertaken in EDF5179 Visual art and design education in the secondary years 1A. It enables pre-service visual art and design teachers to build skills, advanced knowledge and confidence in curriculum design through teaching studio-based practice. It explores a range of issues with respect to classroom pedagogy in the visual arts that are specific to aesthetic education, including a discussion of the interdisciplinary relationships between artists, designers and teachers and their impact for conceptions of student experience. Through critical engagement with research literature, the unit takes students into a deeper experience of curriculum theory especially as it has developed through reform of the dominant curriculum models in the visual arts in Australia and internationally. Assessment tasks in this unit offer students the chance to build their research capacities, to enhance their disciplinary skills and knowledge, and to apply all of these more rigorously in their pedagogical planning, curriculum design and continuing professional learning.