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EDUP4108: Creativity: Practice and Pedagogy
2026 unit information
This unit is founded on a guiding question - How do 21st century teachers develop their own creativity and foster student creativity as a meaningful basis for innovative pedagogical practice and authentic learning? Throughout this unit students are encouraged to reflect deeply on their own imaginative processes, linked to both personal and professional aspects of their emerging teacher identity and implications for future learning and teaching.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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36 credit points of 3000-level EDUP-coded units |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate knowledge about diverse concepts of creativity and their relation to personal and professional aspects of teacher identity
- LO2. Articulate the nature and scope of quality visual arts, music, drama, dance, literature and media arts experiences and activities in facilitating learning across all key learning areas
- LO3. Demonstrate understanding of the concepts of ‘critical literacy’ and ‘visual literacy’ and how the creative arts can facilitate teacher and student development in these areas
- LO4. Identify the nature and diversity of the creative arts across the primary curriculum and in relation to the development, needs and interests of primary age children
- LO5. Identify quality creative arts resource materials, performances, exhibitions and quality professional learning experiences
- LO6. Use selected art form/s to effectively express personal and pedagogical understandings
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Semester 1 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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