Importance of The Arts Education

The Australian Curriculum's View on The Arts in Education:

"The Arts communicate ideas, narratives and emotions showcasing unique identities and means of expression. In The Arts, students learn through experiences as artists and as audiences, acquiring skills specific to The Arts subjects and developing critical understanding that informs decision-making and aesthetic choices" ( ACARA, 2012).

Dance

Rationale:

"Dance is expressive movement with purpose and form. Through Dance, students represent, question and celebrate human experience using the body as the instrument and movement as the medium for personal, social, emotional, spiritual and physical communication." ( ACARA 2012, Draft, 23).

Aims:

"Technical and expressive skills and body awareness to communicate through movement, confidently, creatively and intelligently." (ACARA, 2012, draft , 23)

Drama

Rationale:

"Drama is expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning as drama makers, performers and audiences as they enjoy and analyse their own and others’ stories and points of view." (ACARA, 2012, draft,45).

Aims:

"Sense of curiosity, aesthetic knowledge, joy, and achievement through exploring and playing roles, and imagining situations, actions and ideas as drama makers and audiences" (ACARA, 2012, draft, 45)

Media

Rationale:

"Media Arts is the use of communications technologies such as television, film, video, newspapers, radio, video games, the internet and mobile media to create representations of the world and tell stories. Media Arts connects audiences, purposes and ideas exploring concepts and viewpoints through the creative use of materials and technologies." (ACARA, 2012, draft, 68).

Aims

"Aesthetic understanding and a sense of curiosity as they combine imagery, text and sound to express ideas, concepts and stories for different audiences." (ACARA, 2012,draft, 68)

Music

Rationale:

"Music is exploring, performing, creating, listening and responding to sound and silence. In music, students engage with music from diverse cultures and places. Through this practice they construct and communicate ideas, meanings and values about their personal, social and cultural worlds." (ACARA,2012, draft, 91).

Aims:

"Knowledge, understanding and skills in music through developing skills in musicianship, composing, performing, improvising, responding and listening with intent and purpose." (ACARA, 2012, draft, 91).

Visual Arts

Rationale:

"In Visual Arts students make and respond to diverse forms of art, craft and design. Through engagement with traditional and emerging visual arts-making and critical practices students explore and communicate meanings and messages relevant to their personal worlds and other worlds they encounter." (ACARA,2012,draft,113).

Aims:

"visual arts knowledge, understanding, skills, inquiry processes and innovative thinking to shape ideas and apply visual arts techniques, languages, materials, processes and technologies." (ACARA,2012, draft,113).