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ACARA Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

The Australian Curriculum
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Critical and creative thinking

  1. Introduction
  2. Organising elements
  3. Learning continuum
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Organising elements

The Critical and creative thinking learning continuum is organised into four interrelated elements, each detailing differing aspects of thinking. The elements are not a taxonomy of thinking. Rather, each makes its own contribution to learning and needs to be explicitly and simultaneously developed.

  • Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
  • Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
  • Reflecting on thinking and processes
  • Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures

The diagram below sets out these elements.

Organising elements for Critical and creative thinking

 
Organising elements for Critical and creative thinking

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