Critical and creative thinking

In this subject, students extend and apply their critical and creative thinking capability by, for example:

• thinking critically, logically, ethically, and reflectively
• learning and applying new knowledge and skills
• accessing, organising, using, and evaluating information
• posing questions and identifying and clarifying information and ideas
• developing knowledge and understanding of a range of research processes
• understanding the nature of innovation
• recognising how knowledge changes over time and is influenced by people
• exploring and experiencing creative processes and practices
• designing features that are fit for function (e.g. physical, virtual, or textual)
• investigating the place of creativity in learning, the workplace, and community life
• examining the nature of entrepreneurial enterprise
• reflecting on, adjusting, and explaining their thinking, and identifying the reasons for choices, strategies, and actions taken, applying time management strategies
• setting challenging and achievable goals
• considering different possibilities, considering alternatives, and solving problems
• generating new ideas in specific contexts, seeing existing situations in new ways
• sorting out conflicting claims and weighing evidence
• making plans and being strategic.