Critical and creative thinking

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

• deconstructing and analysing social equity issues
• comparing and evaluating community and government services, policies, and funding
• selecting and considering appropriate evidence in relation to global developments in health and wellbeing
• asking questions, analysing data and opinions, explaining phenomena, and developing a position concerning local, global, or cultural issues 
• accessing, analysing, and critically assessing media messages
• creating new media content in relation to health and wellbeing
• questioning concepts such as ‘truth’ and ‘information’, and examining inequalities in the media around health and wellbeing
• using student agency to purposefully synthesise learning from sources on the basis of relevance and reliability
• evaluating the worth, validity, and reliability of sources on the basis of consistency and one’s own knowledge and experience
• understanding the perspectives of others in order to facilitate mature and tolerant interpretations of differences among groups
• evaluating different courses of action, proposing solutions, and considering immediate and indirect implications of actions.