Week 1: Introduction to Creative Arts: Curriculum and Pedagogy

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02 July 2018

During this week I was introduced to the different aspect of Creative Arts Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy.

The introduction was broken down into two parts:

Part – 1:

• -          Introduction to unit assessor, and lecturers
• -          The unit itself and its content
• -          Assignments and online activities

Exploration on the topic:

  v  Creativity and Education – Sir Ken Robinson. 

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY - Do schools kill creativity?  

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8jICj8juc – Stomp Out Loud (Basketballs and the kitchen)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5qpFXaYePA – Sounds of Rain and Thunder

  v  The importance of Arts education.

Part – 2:

We briefly looked at these four aspects: - summaries (Tutes week 1)

• ·        Dance – expressive movements that merges the physical with intellectual, emotion and even spiritual. It is a powerful art form that incorporates body as a mean of communication. It has the capacity to unites people across boundaries of culture, tradition, language; gender and ability.
• ·         Drama - an effective way of engaging learning where participants recognise and associates with roles and situations to be able to engage with, explore and understand the world they live in.
• ·         Music - the art of combining sounds of varying pitch to produce a coherent composition that is melodious, harmonious, intelligible, and expressive of ideas and emotions.
• ·         Visual Arts - art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film making and architecture.

Activities:

The Importance of Arts

Art is important because it helps and encourages kids to express themselves; it also  helps kids in developing their cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Art lends itself to physical development and the enhancement of fine and gross motor skills.

Reflection:

The video of Sir Ken Robinson speaks to me personally. I found it very interesting and refreshing to stumbled upon such views toward the education system. As much as I can remember, my previous schooling life has been mostly sticking to the the book as shaped by the system - focusing only on academic or cognitive development that has made learning stressful and not effective at all. If I can get into teaching in the future, I WOULD like to go back to my mother-land and focus teaching base on a combination of both cognitive and non-cognitive skills...

-          I have a dream to teach the idea that art is not just a thing, but a way for things.
-          Education should be a tool that nurtures growth in creativity
-          All the activities I get to interact are great and fun

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