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| Under Graduate Degree |
Year module |
NQF level: 6 |
Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English |
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| Purpose: This module has the primary purpose of providing a fundamental understanding of creative skills in general including what creative knowledge and skills are about. As knowledge of creativity is a prerequisite for a successful teaching approach to the arts, the purpose of this module is to empower students to teach arts, by enhancing their skills, knowledge and practical experience in creative and performing arts. Furthermore, the module aims to develop students' subject knowledge and skills related to implementing visual and performing arts in the classroom.
Different topics will be included in the Visual and Performing Arts teaching, plan to promote personal and aesthetic development and growth, teaching methods and the assessment of aesthetic skills within diverse teaching and learning contexts. Graduates will be equipped with the required subject content knowledge base, theory, and methodology that will enable them to demonstrate competence and responsibility as academically and professionally qualified beginner teachers for and in the Arts. Students' theoretical understanding is enriched by contextualizing different aesthetic principles
The purpose of this module also includes the development of competences that the module will assist with and will entail that newly qualified teachers must have sound subject knowledge in Visual and Performing Arts. They must also be able to understand the different art forms, barriers to learning these art forms and strategies to overcome these barriers thus helping to develop teachers' own conceptual understandings through a focus on pedagogical content knowledge in engaging with the Visual and Performing Arts curriculum.
The roles that the module will assist with, as further purpose of this module, will be in developing the role of scholar, researcher and lifelong learner which will be focused on the principles and techniques of creating Visual and Performing Arts in various formats in ways that are appropriate for different purposes and contexts. Introduction to various teaching and assessment techniques related to CAPS will enable sound knowledge of subject content and various principles, strategies and resources appropriate to teaching in diverse contexts
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