Details for EDU121 Critical Thinking for Effective Learning

This subject will guide students to reason critically utilising emotional, intuitive, and faith-based perspectives. This unit equips students with the ability to navigate differing viewpoints in the classroom effectively. Through this exploration, students develop an awareness of diverse backgrounds and needs, enabling them to adapt their teaching practice accordingly.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: EDU121
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Identify and describe various ‘ways of knowing’ and ‘fields of knowledge’ and their implications for effective teaching of students from diverse backgrounds and different needs.
2. Understand the impact of different interpretations of truth on teaching practice, including the implications for the education of students from different backgrounds and with different needs. 
3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the relationship between a teacher’s subject specialty (KLA) and the wider educational environment as expressed through NESA documents and the writings of educational experts and others that reflect a variety of worldviews. 
4. Distinguish and describe the knowledge base of two Indigenous groups, including distinctive ‘ways of knowing’ and ‘fields of knowledge’, including Religious Knowledge, and consider the similarities and differences between the knowledge base of Indigenous groups and your own philosophy of education.
5. Discuss the implications of differing ‘ways of knowing’ and ‘fields of knowledge’ on teaching and learning strategies that are appropriate to meet the needs of students from Indigenous backgrounds.

Subject Content

• Introduction to Thinking Skills
• Truth
• Ways of Knowing
  • Sense Perception
  • Reasoning
  • Language
  • Emotion, Intuition and Faith
  • Politics and Propoganda
  • The Relationship of Faith to Other 'Ways of Knowing'
• Fields of Knowledge
  • Religious Knowledge
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics
  • The Physical Sciences
  • Aesthetics and the Creative Arts
  • The Humanities
  • History
  • Indigenous Knowledge

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (onsite)
• E-learning (online)
• Intensive
• Extensive

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Forum Posts (20%)
• Minor Essay (30%)
• Major Project (50%)

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