Justine Ferrari
From: The Australian
May 04, 2010 12:00AM
EVERY student from the first year of school through to Year 8 will study dance, drama, music, media and visual art for two hours a week under the proposed national arts curriculum.
An initial advice paper setting out the issues to be considered in writing the arts curriculum envisages all students be given a grounding in the five arts, with their study organised through a balance of generating (the idea), realising (the creation) and responding (apprehending and understanding).
"Generating, realising and responding together comprise knowing aesthetically, which in turn is informed and enriched by individual and collective understanding of the contexts in which artworks and experiences have been formed, their historical precedents and the responses of others to them," the advice paper says.
The paper says students in Years 9-12 should have the opportunity to study in one or more of the art forms, but all children should have an understanding of the arts, particularly given the dominance of visual media in today's world. "Though not all young people will become career artists, nor even pursue every art form as a frequent or significant leisure activity, for practical reasons all children need to have a basic critical understanding and agency in all of the arts, just as all children need basic oracy, literacy and numeracy to function in today's society," it says.
From http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/music-dance-classes-planned/story-e6frg6nf-1225861783369 |
