| CODE | EDS5014 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Becoming a Creative and Critical Thinker and Problem Solver | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Education Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit introduces prospective PSCD teachers ways on how to develop critical and creative skills, knowledge, attitudes and understanding so that through their teaching activities their pupils become effective critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims at providing prospective PSCD teachers with the necessary tools, experiences and support in order to become constructive reflective teachers, able to teach critical and creative skills to pupils in class. This should lead pupils to make responsible judgments on issues that are related to their personal and the social lives. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Scrutinize everyday thinking by using critical and creative skills and tools - Sustain focused thinking - Teach others critical and creative thinking and problem solving - Tackle problems using different techniques - Demonstrate an understanding of the nature and techniques of critical and creative thought, including the relationship between the two - Comprehend the relationship between observation and interpretation, reasoning and inference; and valuing and judging. - Deal with ambiguity and contradictions. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify the assumptions in an argument - Build and present an argument - Reason an argument - Create a different perspective to a situation - Come up with alternatives to a set problem - Consider alternatives as a solution to a given problem - Generate new practices - Make new connections among ideas - Experiment with new ideas - Teach critical and creative thinking and problem solving to pupils in class. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Buzan Tony (2002) How to Mind Map: The Ultimate Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life. Thorsons. - De Bono Edward (1993) Teach Your Child How to Think. Penguin. - Fisher Robert (2003) Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. - Gardner Howard (1994) Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham and Gandhi. Basic Books. - Haynes Joanna (1999) Children as Philosophers. Routledge. - Noddings Nel (1995) Philosophy of Education Oxford: Westview Press. Supplementary Readings: - Burman Eva (2004) Values in Education. Routledge. - Buzan Tony (2006) Use Your Head: Innovative Learning and Thinking Techniques to Fulfil Your Potential. BBC Active. - De Bono Edward (1990) Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity. Penguin. - De Bono Edward (2000) Six Thinking Hats. Penguin Books Ltd. - De Bono Edward (2006) De Bono's Thinking Course: Powerful Tools to Transform Your Thinking. BBC Active. - Ennis Robert H. (1995) Critical Thinking. Prentice Hall; Facsimile edition. - Fisher Robert (2005) Teaching Children to Think Second Edition Nelson Thornes. - Gardner Howard (2006) Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice. Basic Books. - Harvey Siegel (1996) Rationality Redeemed?: Further Dialogues on an Educational Ideal. Routledge. - Jones Morgan (1998) The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving. Three Rivers Press (CA). - Lipman Matthew (2003) Thinking in Education. Cambridge University Press. - Mc.Peck John E.(1984) Critical Thinking and Education. Palgrave Macmillan. - Paul Richard (2001) Critical Thinking Skills for College Life: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life. Prentice Hall. - Stanley Sara and Bowkett Stephen (2004) But Why?: Developing Philosophical Thinking in the Classroom: Teacher's Manual. Network Educational Press Ltd. - White David (2000) Philosophy for Kids: 40 Fun Questions That Help You Wonder...about Everything! Prufrock Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joseph Giordmaina |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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