ART HISTORY

ART EDUCATION

joint VADEA/COFA special forum

How should the Arts be positioned

in the Australian Curriculum?

WHEN WHERE Bookings are essential

5:00pm-7.30pm College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Tuesday 10th November Cnr Oxford Street & Greens Rd,
Paddington, Sydney, NSW, 2021
Main Lecture Theatre, EG02
To register: email or fax Yvonne Little at the Professional
Teachers’ Council NSW (PTC):
Email: Y.Little@ptc.nsw.edu.au Fax: 02 9564 2342
Subject line: The Arts in the Australian Curriculum
Include the names of those attending and the name/
contact no. of your school/workplace

While the inclusion of the Arts as a learning area Speakers from education and arts education will
in the Australian Curriculum is loudly applauded, outline their views both in reference to the agenda
the terms under which the visual arts, media, listed and other issues critical to the framing and
music, dance and drama will be represented in the deliver y of the Arts in the Australian Curriculum. The
National Curriculum remain undecided. Current forum will be followed by a plenar y session inviting
understandings of the role played by the arts in questions from the audience.
education are subject to variations in practice,
including: Speakers:
• Rob Randall General Manager, Curriculum, Australian
• the purposes ser ved by the ar ts in education Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
including their general contribution to economic (ACARA)
prosperit y, cultural awareness, innovation and • Brian Croke Executive Director, Catholic Education
creativit y Commission, NSW
• the way that individual art forms are dif ferentiated • Brian Ladd Head of Public Programs, AGNSW
within the per forming and visual ar ts including • Deidhre Wauchop Manager, Creative Ar ts,
the levels of choice, specialisation and recognition Curriculum K-12, NSW Depar tment of Education
• the approach to learning and content among the and Training
dif ferent ar t forms • Dr Mar y Mooney Associate Head of School, School
• the nature of sequential learning in the dif ferent of Education, Universit y Western Sydney, Research
ar t forms Director Drama Australia
• the identif ication of levels of achievement • Jay McPherson Inspector, Creative Ar ts, Of f ice of
and the way in which outcomes in the ar ts are the Board of Studies, NSW
most appropriately assessed. • Kim Snepvangers Head, School of Ar t Histor y and
Ar t Education, COFA UNSW
This high profile forum will provide arts educators • Dr Kerry Thomas Senior Lecturer, School of Art
and other relevant stakeholders a platform to History and Ar t Education, COFA UNSW, VADEA
discuss and help consolidate the place of the arts in Vice-President, State and National Issues
education.
Light refreshments will be ser ved af ter the forum.

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COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS  |  T HE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Phone 9385 068 4 Email cofa@unsw.edu. au Web w w w.cofa.unsw.edu. au