THE ARTS
The Arts Learning Area recognises the arts as dance, drama, media, music, visual arts and combinations of these art forms. Providing integrated experiences within the arts and with other learning areas, optimises learning across the curriculum. While the five art forms are often used in inter-related ways and have close collaborative relationships, each has its own distinct area of knowledge, symbolic language, techniques and conventions.
Strands
The Arts Learning Area identifies three major strands that are interdependent, interrelated and equally important, providing different starting points for arts learning:
- Creating Arts Ideas. Exploring ways of using the arts to communicate ideas and feelings.
- Art Skills and Processes. Discovering and applying the skills, techniques, processes, conventions and technologies of the arts.
- Arts Responses and Analysis. Using arts language, knowledge, skills and aesthetic understanding to respond to, reflect on and evaluate the arts including the diverse social, cultural and historical settings of artworks.