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Teaching Critical and Creative Thinking (EDUC90974)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
Overview
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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
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% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 75% attendance at all tutorials, seminars and workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Coordinator Harry Galatis Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 10 January 2022 to 21 January 2022 Last self-enrol date 12 January 2022 Census date 21 January 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 February 2022 Assessment period ends 25 February 2022 Summer Term 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).
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Secondary) Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) Course Master of Teaching (Primary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024