Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | TEACHING OF ART IN PRIMARY EDUCATION | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | ART103 | ||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents | - Visual literacy: visual literacy skills, including use of art language, visual vocabulary, and visual conventions, visual thinking, visual reasoning, critical viewing, etc. - Art understanding: significance, contribution/roles in art lessons/ units, methodology for approaching artworks, responding and interpreting artworks, elements of history of art - Teaching approaches: the in-depth approach, learning theories that support the in-depth approach, issues related to creativity, to the evaluation of the learner, and to the evaluation of teaching units, examples of visual arts lessons/units, and examples of children’s artworks - Visual arts curriculum: aims and overall philosophy of art curricula, the Cypriot visual arts curriculum, methodological approaches - Cypriot artists: the work of selective Cypriot artists. - Practical engagement with art concepts, means and materials for teaching purposes: the human figure (study of the human figure, proportions, two-dimensional figures, three-dimensional figures, movement in 2D and 3D figures, space and balance), book illustration (fairy tales, illustration and children), use of multiple graphic materials (e.g. pencil, colours, markers, pastels, etc.), use of print-making materials, and use of materials for 3D artworks (e.g. pipe cleaners, iron, mod-roc, scrap materials, etc.) | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The choice of the methodology adopted for the delivery of this course is based on the PCKg model (Pedagogical Content Knowing) for student-teacher preparation, which emphasizes the need to provide future teachers simultaneously knowledge in four areas: a) pedagogical knowledge, b) subject matter (content) knowledge, c) knowledge of the learners, and d) knowledge of the learning environment. The module operates at two levels: - The theoretical level that relates to different issues regarding teaching approaches (e.g. the in-depth approach) and theory of art (e.g. responding to artworks), and - The practical/workshop level that deals with the familiarization in practice with different visual concepts and different techniques and ways to produce artworks. During both levels students are shown examples of art lessons/units with children in the Cypriot primary schools with emphasis on learners’ outcomes and learning preferences. The examples, as well as other lecture notes, are available to the e-learning platform. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |