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Creativity, Cultures and the Arts (EDUC91325)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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This subject explores contemporary educational research scholarship encompassing a variety of knowledges, communities, and sectors for human flourishing. It involves a deep examination of complex relationships in societies and cultures to re-envision creativity through new perspectives, including culturally responsive and relational pedagogies.

Critical analysis is applied to challenges and issues across arts practices, policies, and pedagogies, highlighting the significance of relationships among artists, teachers, and learners and the way these connections influence arts education through a mutual exchange of practice.

Investigating how these interconnected relationships impact the socio-material, technological, political, and economic challenges of the modern world, this subject is integrated into a self-guided multi-modal research project. This project considers creative practices, cultural practices, and innovative arts education pedagogies and methods.

Intended learning outcomes

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

  • Critically analyse key theories and concepts of creativity, cultures, and their intersections with arts education, focusing on the impact on human flourishing
  • Critically engage with contemporary research and scholarship in the field, highlighting challenges, issues, and the significance of creative ecologies for arts education and broader societal challenges
  • Critically reflect on and articulate the synergies between creative practices, cultural practices, and innovative pedagogies and methods
  • Justify and relate knowledge from creativity, cultures, and arts education to address socio-material, technological, political, and economic challenges in today's world, emphasising the interdisciplinary nature of these ecologies
  • Critically engage with creativity, cultures, and the arts scholarship to propose, design, and communicate innovative solutions in arts education policy, practice, and pedagogy.

Generic skills

This subject will assist students to develop the following transferable skills:

  • Creativity and innovation
  • Critical reasoning and thinking
  • Communication
  • Active and participatory citizenship.

Last updated: 30 March 2025