Critical and creative thinking

Students extend and apply their critical and creative thinking capability by, for example:

• engaging in contemporary global debates and exploring the implications of globalisation in political contexts
• using inquiry skills to assess the accuracy, clarity, depth, breadth of treatment, and relevance of information
• questioning and challenging their assumptions and the validity and reliability of sources of information, and developing a political argument using valid and reliable evidence
• developing their ability to interpret inferences and meaning, and appreciating the nature of politics as they examine the structure of arguments to evaluate the claims made
• understanding the underlying political issues that hinder progress towards new solutions, to develop creative and defensible strategies to improve decision‑making processes
• using high‑level reasoning skills to develop their metacognitive thinking, in order to examine issues related to power and to propose appropriate and innovative courses of action.