Postgraduate - UnitEDF5811 - Creative approaches to teaching and learning

This unit is designed for both pre-service teachers and professionals who perform teaching roles in workplaces such as: community, business, TAFE, schools or other diverse contexts. The unit focuses on the increasing need to think creatively and practice creatively and the nature of arguments that promote and support this. It develops students' capacities and understandings of the character of creative pedagogies, their place, their purpose and their impact in contemporary society. It positions students to critically evaluate creative teaching and learning practice using the wide body of literature on creativity, arts, imagination and innovation. This includes the impact of creative pedagogies on working relationships and on the communities in which they are engaged. Students trial a range of creative pedagogies through a hands-on approach to learning. Through a range of practical exercises, students develop skills in imagination, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, generative exploration and risk-taking and reflect on these experiences as they expand their teaching repertoire to respond to various learning contexts.