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Teaching Critical and Creative Thinking (EDUC90974)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
July
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Summer Term July |
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Acquiring content or discipline knowledge is an important ingredient in teaching and learning, but it cannot tell the whole story. Knowing what to do with this knowledge and information when we exercise sound reasoning and creativity, whether it is within disciplines or outside of them, is equally important. As a complement to knowledge-centered approaches to teaching and learning, this elective introduces students to the critical and creative thinking competency in the Australian and Victorian curriculum. It will examine some of the strategies that have been presumed to foster critical thinking, in particular dialogic and other key pedagogies. Beginning with a literature review of key contributions to the topic of critical and creative thinking, a range of dialogic and other methods aimed at developing critical and creative thinking skills and dispositions in students will be examined; from 'Thinking' literature, Socratic discussions and inquiry-based approaches, to thinking tools and routines, as well as more recent philosophical approaches.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Understand, explore and analyse key concepts, terms and divisions involved in the study of critical and creative thinking competency and in dialogic and associated pedagogies
- Identify, analyse and model a range of strategies used in teaching for thinking and evaluate their effectiveness
- Develop, implement and assess teaching programs with explicit attention to, and application of, thinking skills and dispositions
- Demonstrate continuous professional learning through teacher practitioner inquiry and research
Generic skills
- Clinical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Reflection for continuous improvement
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Inquiry and research
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Report on a lesson sequence (1,500 words or equivalent)
| Mid semester | 40% |
Essay on critical and creative thinking within a chosen discipline.
| End of semester | 60% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Coordinator Harry Galatis Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 13 January 2020 to 24 January 2020 Last self-enrol date 15 January 2020 Census date 24 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 February 2020 Assessment period ends 24 February 2020 Summer Term contact information
- July
Coordinator Harry Galatis Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 July 2020 to 25 September 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 August 2020 Census date 2 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 21 October 2020 Assessment period ends 20 November 2020 July contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Readings will be available online via the Learning Management System (LMS).
Last updated: 10 February 2024