David Roy - Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood & Primary Education, 2nd ed

Teaching the Arts: Early childhood and primary education offers a comprehensive and exciting introduction to Arts education in Australia and New Zealand. In this second edition, each chapter encourages readers to engage with the Arts and provides students with opportunities to develop their understanding and practical skills through reflective questions, examples and activities.

Updated content includes:

• significant extensions to each chapter, reflecting the five art forms of Dance, Drama, Media, Music and Visual Art
• additional practical activities
• alignment with current research and theory
• extended online resources, including PowerPoint slides for lecturers.

Teaching the Arts Second Edition draws important links to the finalised Australian Curriculum: The Arts, the New Zealand Curriculum, the Early Years Learning Framework and Te Whriki, and includes substantial references to Indigenous histories and cultures, relationships with Asia and sustainability.

Generously illustrated and supported by excellent online resources, Teaching the Arts Second Edition is an indispensable resource for pre-service teachers.

Additional resources are available online at www.cambridge.edu.au/academic/teachingarts/

DAVID ROY is Lecturer in Education and Creative Arts at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

WILLIAM BAKER is Lecturer in Arts and Social Education at the University of Tasmania, Tasmania.

AMY HAMILTON is Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts and Arts Education at Flinders University, South Australia.

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For this second edition we have retained the clear language that makes the knowledge accessible. Each chapter encourages readers to engage with the Arts and provides opportunities to develop understanding and practical skills through reflective questions, examples and activities. Teaching the Arts draws important links to the Australian Curriculum, the New Zealand Curriculum, the Early Years Learning Framework and Te Whriki, and includes substantial references to Indigenous histories and cultures, relationships with Asia and sustainability. Generously illustrated and featuring excellent online resources, Teaching the Arts is an indispensable resource for pre-service teachers.

The second edition also features enhanced and updated content:

• significant extension to each chapter particularly on the five art forms of dance, drama, media, music and visual art
• additional practical activities
• additional current research and theory
• additional curriculum information to the finalised Australian Curriculum: The Arts, while still maintaining the depth of content for the New Zealand Curriculum, the Early Years Learning Framework and Te Whriki.
• additional online resources, including lecture PowerPoints for academics.

We would particularly like to recognise the students and academics who have engaged and supported this text. Without their support, usage and helpful feedback the text would not have been so successful and widely used. Indeed, it is because of the positive feedback and requests for additional content that we have been able to create this second edition. We aim to even further support the needs of teachers in training across Australia and New Zealand and the wider world, as well as our academic colleagues.

There is a growing recognition that for our children to be successful in society we need to have innovative and creative thinkers who see possibilities for making a difference. It is our sincere hope that this greatly expanded second edition will support us all in recognising and implementing the Arts and their importance in education. Water is the giver of life. We need STEAM in academia and education, not just a STEM that will never grow.