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After learning about light within this unit, this lead me to notice more often how light affects the objects around it. Such as sitting in my living rooms, once I closed the blinds I realised how the light trying to shine through the side of the blind caused art in itself, with the line of circles.

Within an early childhood education setting 'light play' can be planned. 'Light play allows children to investigate the properties of light and how light interacts with different materials, it encourages collaborative play, creative experimentation and discovery based learning'.

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Creativeness is something that every child has, we all have an imagination. We become so use to seeing the same things around use that we forgot what can be special about them. 'creativity is as important in literacy'. 'He also states that 'children become frightened of being wrong, which means we are educating them out of their artistic capabilities'. If children become scared of being 'wrong' they are not able to let their own imagination and creativity shine.

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This has reminded me how all the materials around us that we usually throw away, thinking they are 'junk' can often be used in a very creative manner.

Within an early childhood education setting, educators are able to collect these 'junk' materials from what they use in their everyday life both at work and not at work. They are able to provide the children with these materials to create their own artwork.

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Art can use many different materials, some are obvious and others may not be so obvious. Junk stuff also known as 'found or loose materials' can be great to use in an early childhood education setting. Often these are things that we would chuck as such as  'cereal boxes, toilet paper tubes, corks, juice cans, telephone wire, all these sort of disposable materials are sculptural treasures in an early childhood art studio'. (Pelo, 2016) Rather than throwing all these 'junk' materials away they can be great use in the education setting.

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I have learnt that when you aren't able to get access to the instruments you need, a lot of the times you are able to create them with what you have around you. This subject has allowed me to use my own creative mind to think of new ways of making different sounds.

Within an early childhood education setting children can learn to use what is around them to make different sounds, they can create their own instruments. To do this we must 'view children as rich in potential, strong, powerful, competent'. Having this view will allow you to give the children full range of using their own creativity without providing them unnecessary assistance.

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Instruments are a big part of music making, there are many instruments already create but also there are ways to create instruments using the materials around you. 'Sometimes we are required to be inventive, creative and to think on feet when we might not have instruments available or without our budget'. (Victoria University, 2020) This is a great way to use your own creative imagination to come up with or recreate new instruments to create both similar and different sounds.

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This video has taught that there is a real importance in asking permission of those whose ideas, work or technique you are using. It is disrespectful to not to say anything and benefit from what others have created, especially if it has been used in a different manner and you are benefiting off it.

The knowledge from this can be used in an early childhood education setting to teach children the importance of cultural appropriation. Children are able to learn what is right from wrong, helping to develop their own views.

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Within this video she explain what it is to culturally misappropriate, which is explained as 'one culture taking ideas from another and uses it in a different context, if the way it is used is inappropriate or disrespectful to the original culture'. (Koori Design, 2017) To use another persons work without their permission is inappropriate. for example one should always ask permission and work along an aboriginal person if they are using their art forms or idea. This video, provides two different things, one being an important message that need to be passed on to other but this was also done in an artistic way, using different forms, such as words and animated characters.

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Module 3
Cultural Appropriation, Koori Design, 2017

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Jayson Cooper, Reflections in the Water, Out and About program

Joe Geia 1988, online video, Yil Lull, viewed 24 October 2020

Koori Design 2017, Cultural Appropriation, viewed 25 October 2020

Mutton Bird  2015, online video, Bangarra Dance Theatre, viewed 24 October 2020

Sarah 2019, How wee learn, image, viewed 24 October 2020

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References:

Edwards, C, Gandini, L & Forman, G 2011, The hundred languages of children: the Reggio Emilia experience in transformation, 3rd edn

Ipswich Art Gallery 2017, Light Play: education resource, Ispwich

Koori Design, 2017, Online video, Cultural Approriation, Vimeo, viewed 23 October 2020

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V, Kind, S, Kocher, L 2017, Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education, Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, New York

Pelo, A 2016, The Language of Art : Inquiry-Based Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings, Redleaf Press, La Vergne. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [3 November 2020].

Roy, D, Baker, WJ &Hamilton, A 2015, A Vision for the Arts in Education, Teaching arts: early childhood and primary education, 2nd Edn, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne

Victoria University, 2020, Module 4: Recapitulation (In class materials, lecture notes, Early Childhood Pedagogy and Curriculum: the arts, Victoria University, 21 August 2020

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This journal has focused on an inquiry into different forms of arts, this has looked at the modules used throughout the unit and has examined how there are many different forms of art, shown in different ways, which will also look different to every individual. I have spoken about what I have learnt within each area, furthermore this journal has gone into the way they can be implemented within an early childhood education setting.

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Module 8 (Light, shadows ect)

Window Shadows, Candice Da Cruz

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Sarah, How wee learn, 2019

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Creating an Instrument, Candice Da Cruz

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This has taught me the importance in language and the uniqueness each language has. Every language is an art form in itself and the way that we place words together can create more art, whether this be in a song, a poem or story.

Language is used everyday in an education setting, activities could be planned where children can do story telling, rhyming games or writing poems & songs. Within doing this children may also find that it is a great way of expressing themselves.

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The reflections in the water piece shows the use of language as art. Language in itself is art but the words we use every day are put together to make a beautiful story. There are times people are not able to express themselves through only speaking, but by using the same language they can. This can be in the form of music, such as lyrics or poem writing. 'arts involves expressive and symbolic modes of thinking, understanding and knowing, and communicates ideas in a unique manner... they enable us to 'say' things to each other that cannot be expressed in other ways'. (Roy, Baker & Hamilton, 2015)

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Jayson Cooper, Reflections in the Water

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This unit taught me that the everyday materials we use, that seem so simple, can be used in so many different way. 'Materials live in the world in multiple ways' (Ketchabaw, Kind & Kocher, 2017)
Ketchabaw, Kind & Kocher (2017) explains that 'scholars continue to highlight the importance of materials in young children's learning.

This can be implemented in an early childhood education setting by using paper, paint, clay, blocks or charcoal. This could be creating art by using paint and a brush or using your hands to form art with clay.

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This experiment was related to the 'encounters with materials in an early childhood education' book which spoke about paper and its relation to movement.
This book explains the importance of using materials and how it 'contributes to the child's social, physical , emotional and creative development' (Pacini-Ketchabaw, Kind, Kocher 2017)

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Candice Da Cruz, Pinwheels

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I was taught the beauty of everyday life, showing every day images such as trees and people performing everyday acts. This reminded me to look at everyday life, take time out to remember the beauty that surrounds us.

Encouraging a child's imagination and creativity in an early childhood setting is important. This should be done, understanding that all children has a different view of art.

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Yil Lull created a beautiful art piece in the form of music and visual arts. This art piece uses the instruments such as the didgeridoo, the use of voices and the beautiful work of cultural body paint. Arts can look different to each individual based on their own life experience and culture, 'the arts cannot be neatly tied up in a bow and a label: they are culturally determined, personally constructed, and open to a multitude of interpretations and meaning'. (Roy, Baker & Hamilton, 2015)

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Joe Geia, Yil Lull, 1988

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I have been reminded the importance of movement in art throughout this unit, often when I use to hear the word movement I would automatically think of a complex dance. However this particular video has taught me the beauty that is involved in the simple movements that tell a beautiful story.

The implementation in an early childhood education setting can look like, the encouragement of dancing and teaching the beauty in simple movements as well as complex movements. Movement activities can be planned, such as freeze or follow the leader.

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The Mutton Bird piece of art has many connections to the unit, it shows the beauty in movement, painting and use of light. Within this one art piece there are so many different elements that could be a piece of art within itself. There are so many ways children can express their own creativity, the teachers role is 'not so much to facilitate learning in the sense of 'making it smooth or easy' but rather to 'stimulate' it by making problems more complex, involving and arousing'. (Edwards, Gandini, & Forman, 2011) This means that educators should ensure children are provided with challenging task that use their own imagination and creativity.

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Mutton Bird, Bangarra Dance Theatre, 2015

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This journal will focus on an inquiry into the forms of arts, to explain this more it will look at how art can look different, using different materials. This journal will look at different pieces of artwork and connect it to the modules that have been complete throughout the semester. Furthermore, it will be discussed how these forms of art can be implemented in an early childhood education setting.