Arts and Motricity in Child Education

Scholar Year: 2018/2019 - 1S

Courses

Head Teacher Responsability António Ângelo de Jesus Ferreira de Vasconcelos Head

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL L TC E OT OT/PL TPL O S Type of classes Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 4,00 António Vasconcelos   2,33 Joana Matos   0,67 Mário André Cunha Espada   1,00

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

1. Know and characterize the artistic development of children from 0 to 10 years.
2. Experiencing and understanding contexts of appreciation, execution and artistic creation as enhancers of expression and development
3. Framing the artistic development between individual creativity and the adoption of
shared social models.
4. Understanding the mechanisms inherent to the motor development process for the critical periods and stages of development of motor skills and perceptive-motor development processes in the pre-school and 1st cycle of EB
5. Manipulating differentiated tools in the fields of technology and digital media

Syllabus

1. Artistic development in childhood: from the manipulation of materials to artistic expression
2. Contexts of expression and development: appraisal, implementation, creation and handling technologies and digital media
3. Creativities and social sharing
4. Changes in indicators of growth and of maturation; the perceptual-motor development of the coordinative abilities and motor skills in preschool and 1st cycle

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

The main purpose of this UC is to ensure the future educators and teachers skills that enable reflective practices, creative and autonomy in decision-making processes in educational interventions with regard to the arts and motor skills in children and their interrelationship with other areas of knowledge. The selected content focus in different areas of arts and motor skills, basing planning skills, implementation and evaluation in a integrative perspective of curriculum development in context and preschool and 1st cycle of basic education. The mobilization of knowledge, skills and attitudes in the field of arts and motor skills, to develop training objectives of future educators and teachers, contributes to a global vision of curriculum development, inclusive and creative, attentive to the specificities of education of children.

Teaching methodologies

The sessions will comprise the exhibition and debate on programmatic issues and practical experimentation, individual and group, of artistic processes, with a view to integration knowledges and consistency of learning. This theoretical and practical work in the classroom will be complemented by research and reading documents and the production of an artistic work.
The evaluation will be continuous and timely through participation in the proposed activities and in carrying out specific tasks including research, writing, production and specific performance under the expressive areas.
In a situation of exam, the evaluation will be focus on writing and in the specific performance of the different expressions

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

The activities to be carried out seek to create conditions to promote learning and deepening knowledge about the characteristics of the motor development process of the child, as well the participation in oral exposure processes, discussion, practical experimentation, research, reading and production that allow to integrated knowledge that is advertised on the goals and that includes knowledge, understanding, ownership and multimodal creation.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

Continuous assessment includes the following elements and their weightings:
class participation (10%); design, performance and public presentation of an artistic work (45%); description and analysis of a situation with children in Kindergarten context and / or 1st cycle related to the Arts and Motricity (45%) and planning a comprehensive proposal. As an alternative to continuous assessment, students will do a final exam.
During the first week of classes, students should contact the teacher responsible for the UC in order to indicate by which the modalities choose. If they choose the final exam may, like other students, to monitor the activities of the UC page and put questions to teachers.

Bibliography

Fumoto, H., Robson, S.,Greenfield, S., Hargreaves, D. J. (2012). Young Children's Creative Thinking. London: Sage Publications.
Gabbard, C.P. (2011). Lifelong Motor Development. (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company.
Gallahue, D., Ozmun, J., & Goodway, J. (2012). Understanding Motor Development: Infants, children, adolescent and adults (7th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Griffiths, F. (ed.) (2010). Supporting Children’s Creativity through Music, Dance, Drama and Art. Creative Conversations in Early Years. London: Routledge.
Jones, R., e Wyse, D. (ed.) (2013). Creativity in the Primary Curriculum. London: Routledge.
Swanwick, K. (1979) A Basis for Music Education. Windsor: NFER Publishing Company. Swanwick, K. (2014). Música, Mente e Educação. Belo Horizonte: Editora Autêntica.
Vasconcelos, A. Â. (2007). A Música no 1.º ciclo do Ensino Básico: o estado a sociedade, a escola e a criança. Revista de Educação Musical, N.º 128-129, Maio - Agosto e Setembro - Dezembro

Observations

Depending on the session will be provided more specific bibliography according to the syllabus and the work