028003 Children's Literature and Drama for Primary School

Description

This subject develops pre-service teachers' understanding of literature and drama in a primary school context. Students examine a wide range of literature in growing complexity with specific reference to texts that evoke personal, social, cultural, and aesthetic values for K-6 students across genres including contemporary, historical and classical texts.?Texts include conceptualisations of childhood and adolescence, subjectivity and gender, hope and sustainability, ethnicity, culture and Indigenous stories by Australian Aboriginal authors. Pre-service teachers critically analyse key aspects of literary theory including narrative theory, metafiction, and intertextuality to examine and respond to the literature. They explore acting techniques and skills required to perform for children at different stages of development – developing imagination, audibility, voice production, concentration and an awareness of the skills involved in interpreting a role and developing a character through drama, resulting in producing reader’s theatres and digitised story improvisations.