Creativity and Knowledge Enhancement

Subject EDUC30064 (2015)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2015.

Credit Points: 12.5
Level: 3 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject is not offered in 2015.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 1 1-hour lecture and 1 2-hour seminar each week
Total Time Commitment:

170 hours
Prerequisites:
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Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

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Subject Overview:

This subject will lead students to understand the processes involved in knowledge enhancement and transfer. Topics will include: the notion of creativity and innovation; the evaluation and critical analysis of ideas; the influence of sociological, historical and cultural influences on knowledge enhancement and creativity; novice versus expert representations of a topic; knowledge transfer and creativity.

Students will be encouraged throughout to develop this understanding in the context of their tertiary learning and to understand themselves as knowledge enhancers.
Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this subject, students will be able to:

  • Analyse learning and teaching processes in terms of knowledge enhancement and transfer;
  • Understand notions of creativity and innovation, and their relationship;
  • Work with an awareness of creativity as a cultural construct;
  • Understand creative aspects of knowledge transfer.
Assessment:
  • 2000-word assignment in which students will select a topic they are studying and examine it in terms of its source in and inherent potential for creativity, due mid-semester (50%)
  • 2000-word assignment in which students will select a topic they are studying and identify the processes by which they might creatively lead others to an enhanced knowledge of the area, due in the examination period (50%)

Attendance at all classes (tutorial/seminars/practical classes/lectures/labs/online classes) is obligatory. Failure to attend 80% of classes will normally result in failure in the subject.
Prescribed Texts:

A book of readings will be produced.
Breadth Options:

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

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Generic Skills:

On completion of this subject students will be able to:

  • Critically analyse knowledge in terms of its construction and development;
  • Understand learning as knowledge enhancement;
  • Understand the processes of knowledge transfer.

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