Delivering Authentic Arts Education 5th Edition

This market-leading practical text helps student teachers develop their  confidence, understanding and skills to effectively and authentically  teach arts.

With a strong balance between theory and practice,  Delivering Authentic Arts Education outlines the true nature of the key  learning area of arts education and its importance in the curriculum,  emphasising the arts as forms of creative activity, meaning-making and  expression in a cultural context. Initial chapters discuss how to  recognise and build on existing artistic abilities and pedagogical  skills, how to encourage children’s creativity, how to lead arts  appreciation experiences, and the general principles of pedagogies,  planning and assessment.

Part 1 ends with an example unit of  Inquiry Programming: Patterns around us. Part 2 specifically examines  the five arts areas: dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts.  Authentic, local visuals demonstrate real learning environments in a  contemporary setting.

What's New

    The author has restructured the contents to create a more visible  structure that will be easier for students to follow. The previous  Chapter 5, 'Planning, pedagogy, and assessment for authentic arts  learning' has been split into two chapters: Chapter 5, 'Pedagogies for  authentic arts learning', and Chapter 6, 'Planning and assessment for  authentic arts learning'. The Part 3 'Units of inquiry' content is now  at the end of Part 1 as a section – 'Programming: Patterns around us'.  The rationale for this is based on organising arts education around four  artistic learning processes (invent, make, connect, reflect) and using  these processes to structure the content across Chapter 2, (these are  four processes for arts learning), Chapter 5 (this is how you need to  teach to support these processes), and Chapter 6 (this is how you plan  to support these processes)
NEW authentic, local visuals to  engage students, especially photos of children in Chapter 7, 'Dance',  and artworks in Chapters 5 and 6
Updated and strengthened  coverage of important current topics such as well-being for teachers and  children, delivering arts virtually and the use of technology, online  and blended learning, and The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education  Declaration

Features

Readers explore authentic arts education in practice through the 'Classroom snapshot' boxes with real-life examples
    Student-teachers develop their own activities to introduce children  to the relevant arts principles, elements and skills with the activities  suggested in the 'Starter ideas' boxes
For more effective  learning, the 'At-a-glance' boxes provide quick overviews of key  concepts, practical tips and useful resources
High quality online educational resources support teaching and learning in the 'Online resources for Arts' annotated lists
    Readers identify important educationalists, influential theorists  and selected well-known artists using the 'Key people' icons
Cross-Curricular Priorities (CCP) icon clearly directs pre-service  teachers to content relating to the three CCP areas of Aboriginal and  Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Asia and Australia's  Engagement with Asia, and Sustainability