Arts and Performance - Addressing Disability

This unit will explore the intersection between the Arts and special education. In this unit university students will inquire into the fields of visual art, music, drama, media and dance and how these fields can encourage multiple learning possibilities for learners who have a dis/ability. University students will also experience a range of arts based practices to support their interpersonal and pedagogic knowledge. In addition they will be encouraged to understand how all Arts based approaches to learning within the inclusive spectrum can assist and facilitate in affective and cognitive advancement. This unit will also promote an understanding of how Arts based practice can promote wellbeing, self-efficacy and agency for students who have physical and cognitive challenges. University students will utilize practical approaches that engage the Arts to develop opportunities for learning that is based on expressive and performance modalities. This unit will also provide university students with an introduction to AUSLAN. Knowledge of AUSLAN will assist university students to use diverse modes of communication when negotiating arts-based practices. University students learning AUSLAN will use Arts education as a basis for consolidating their sign language skills.