Study Arts Education with us: Drama, Music and Visual Arts
Our Arts Education team include passionate academics with specialist knowledge and experience in drama, media, visual arts, and music education.
By working with the team you will explore current trends, critical issues and research in arts teaching and learning, joining a community of educators with a shared commitment to improving arts education in a range of settings.
- Courses in Arts Education
- Themes explored in Arts Education
- Staff in Arts Education
- Who is the program suitable for?
- Key benefits of the course
Courses in Arts in Education
Download the course brochure to find out more about how you can specialise in Arts Education in 2012.
You can specialise in Arts Education by choosing one of the following courses (please note, handbook entries for these courses are not updated until late October 2011):
| Course | Part time | Full time | |
| Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Studies | 1 year | 6 months | |
| Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of Shakespeare | 1 year | ||
| Master of Education (by coursework) | 2 years | 1 year | |
| Master of Education (by research) (thesis and coursework) | 3 years | 18 months | |
| Doctor of Education (by research) | 6 years | 3 years | |
| PhD | 6 years | 3 years |
(NB. The differing lengths of the Masters programs are based on the previous qualifications/work experience of the applicant)
Themes explored in Arts Education
We are dedicated to assisting students to develop and foster their own creativity and to pursue unique research and scholarship. Together, students and staff explore critical issues in contemporary arts education, including:
- the artistic and cultural curriculum
- the teacher as artist, the artist as teacher
- arts pedagogy and learning in the arts
- creativity and the arts
- arts education in the community
- social impact of the arts.
You will also have the opportunity to study a new subject, Innovative Spaces and Pedagogy, designed to help teachers and principals use the remarkable new learning environments currently being built in many schools to the greatest effect.
Through the range of subjects offered you may:
- examine the nature of artistic thought and pedagogy
- investigate appropriate strategies for researching arts education
- study contemporary arts practise in relation to drama, music or visual arts education
- critically appraise a range of writings in the field of contemporary theory and apply them to the arts in educational and community contexts.
Staff in Arts Education
You will be working with arts education specialists who have many years of professional experience as teachers and researchers. They are actively involved in state, national and international professional arts education bodies, and offer experience from diverse creative backgrounds. The academics leading this area include Professor Susan Wright, Dr Christine Sinclair, Dr Wes Imms and Dr Neryl Jeanneret.
Who are these programs suitable for?
Courses in Arts Education provide initial preparation and continuing professional development of teachers and other educators at the primary and secondary school level. Whether you are a current arts teacher or aspiring to be, our programs aim to advance understanding of the theory and practice of education in the arts.
Key benefits of the programs
- Collaborative and multi-disciplinary approaches to research and teaching
- Student-centred reflective learning and curriculum
- Academic staff offer a wealth of classroom experience
- Involvement with national and international research projects
- Courses are highly relevant to schools and grassroots education practices
- Supportive learning community nurtured through seminars and focus groups