Creativity and the Arts

Overview

This specialisation enables you to gain the knowledge, skills and experiences to be a leader in the Arts and creative practice in and across education. Intended to cultivate critical thinking, analytical and creative problem-solving capabilities, you will learn in supportive studio environments where you will practice with your peers and leading experts in Creativity and Arts Education. You will develop your expertise in a range of contexts for arts-based educational research and apply established theories to a body of knowledge of practice. Through engaging with issues, practices, policies, methods, and theories about learning in and through the arts in diverse settings you will advance your professional practice.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:

Critically reflect on contemporary research and scholarship that evidence creativity and arts education principles, methods, practices, policies and their relationship to First Nations' knowledges
Critically analyse creativity and arts education research and scholarly discourse to address educational challenges across diverse knowledges, communities and sectors
Critically analyse and reflect on the value and recognition First Nations' cultures, histories and knowledges in creativity and arts education policies, pedagogies and practices that promote respect for diversity, inclusion and social justice through cultural learning
Evaluate practices, methods and principles in creativity and arts education to generate and communicate contemporary educational research scholarship across diverse knowledges, communities and sectors
Create and reflect critically on professional practices and scholarship in creativity, sustainability arts education and global education perspectives and issues across diverse knowledges, communities and sectors.

Last updated: 27 February 2025