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Mhm. Hello, my name is Hannah McGee.

So today I'll be addressing ethical understanding and critical and

creative thinking which are general capabilities in the Australian curriculum.

So first off we'll start by defining the concepts.

So what is your understanding of ethical understanding and how

can you apply this in practice?

Where does the concept come from?

And why are we so pressure to use this definition?

So I think of understanding is about our own moral

judgment and our reasoning as to what what a concept

means and what is behind that concept.

So we use the framework here which has three areas

understanding ethical concepts and issues, reasoning and decision making and

actions and exploring the values, rights and responsibilities.

So ethical ideas uh stem from big ideas or a

real life issue that has multiple they have multiple answers.

They have multiple values, beliefs and and ideas attached to

it. So students can take this into the real world

and address this later on in life and I find

it to be quite beneficial.

Critical and creative thinking involves divergent thinking which has uh

critiquing and analyzing information in a creative way that mainly

to multiple solutions and outcomes.

And here is where we have the process of enquiring

and from that we move on to generating ideas and

possible actions through that process.

We then analyze synthesize and evaluate the reasoning and procedures

and then we reflect on the thinking and the process.

So this could take place by just a general debrief

at the end of the class.

So more in park estate.

Critical thinking is thinking that critiques that keeps it quite

short and sweet.

So basically we can fly this in the classroom by

addressing any issue at hand and critically analysing why we

came to that conclusion and whether there's other solutions, whether

there's other answers.

So it ties in really nicely with ethical understanding to

really adapt and open, open mindedly understand the concepts and

ideas from another perspective as well.

So next we move onto beliefs, beliefs has a strong

value within ethical understanding.

So our beliefs, including philosophical beliefs have a considerable influence

on our actions, says Beardsley.

So this can be also similarly explored by marbles, which

argues that a child is not born with a conceptual

framework enabling them to make sense of the world they

have to learn through doing and what things are and

what they mean.

So, I guess here the argument raised is that education

is required to understand the world a child is not

born to know about the world.

They do.

They understand their own beliefs and values through their upbringing

for example.

But education offers more of a creative and critical analysis

of what the world involves and what's out there to

explore. Mhm.

So here we move on to what the purpose of

school is.

So there's a couple of arguments here, but first we'll

discuss the strategies we can use within the school to

assist with learning specifically an ethical understanding and critical and

creative thinking.

So Phil cams question quadrant creative critical thinking.

We can also address the thinkers and listening tool kit

for students and teachers and the Ceo I framework.

So, within ethical understanding and critical and creative thinking, there's

the idea that addressed of cultural relativism.

So, teachers can use this as a simple test for

determining what is right and what is wrong, What they

have to do here is um ask whether the action

is in accordance with the code of one society.

So is that drawing on a student's beliefs, values and

perception of the world?

So, the critical analysis of the literature literature shows one

idea being, education for work or versus education for well

being. So what's export here is posing whether it is

deemed to be worthwhile education.

So, knowledge and understanding is explained here as making sense

of the world beyond individuals experience as values and beliefs.

This is where I totally agree.

And I think that education is critical to understanding the

world beyond one's own personal experiences standpoint, and values and

beliefs. So this is where it can be acquired through

educational practice.

The aim for ethical, the aim for ethical action is

expressed by night and Collins providing a bridge between empirical

understanding and geography.

So, this is further supports the students understanding of social

justice and sustainability in the world.

So, this is this argument, agree, is in agreeance to

my thoughts here that schools should be there to develop

an individual's ability to think.

So do we hear that states or which the school

can and should do for pupils is developed their ability

to think so rather than, you know rote learning or

understanding education through the, the idea to develop their understanding

to get a job or to have a specific outcome.

Whereas in this, in this idea, what we're saying here

is that teachers are there to guide students to help

them understand the world through their own thought process and

let them analyze and let them question.

So through these general capabilities, we can we can work

through these ideas for students to make their own decisions,

but beyond their own understanding and consider a collaborative thinking

and addressing inquiry based learning to consider multiple outcomes.

Yeah. So coming into the idea of these general capabilities,

Akara has set community expectations for students and teachers.

So goal one in the Australian Education System is to

promote excellence and equity.

So this community expectation shows the importance of engaging in

equitable and appropriate education that is student centered and focused.

So we've got a quote here, The Foundation, the founding

value of education, sustainable development is respect, respect for others,

both present and future generations and respect for the planet

and what is provided to us SD challenges us or

to adopt new behaviors and practices to secure our future.

So I think that this quote really ties in nicely

to what we're trying, what I'm trying to argue for

the importance of cultivating reasoning and questioning within the world.

So students can understand the world and develop an idea

of respect and um, and knowledge not only for what

they believe in what is right and what is what

is proven to be correct and also to consider other

opinions and options.

And students can take that further into their, into their

profession or into them personal well being and personal lives

as well.

So the role of education is a place for engaging

in equipping people for change.

So that's the, that's an important point to note here

that um, it's all about preparing students for change and

learning these new behaviors and ways of living.

So here I have addressed um, you seven geography and

I've got an inquiry question here is climate change real.

So this is like a big idea question to sort

of get get thoughts and provoke ideas and emotions.

And then from there we sort of question why the

students feel this way and what has brought on this

this question and this answer.

So I've got some of the graphics that the students

would be able to discuss in small groups and come

back to the teacher with some answers as well.

So here's some questions that the students would be able

to address.

So things like, is this a cultural product, Is this

a result of cultural conditioning?

So how has these assumptions and values of the leafs

influence the approach to the question and the answer to

the question.

And from this?

It will develop inquiry questions.

Yeah. So I would be addressing the geographical inquiry.

So whereby students analyze qualify and test their own attitudes,

values and beliefs and explore knowledge, attitudes and values which

is influenced by judgment, decision making and the environment in

which they live.

So approaching this ethical reasoning through real life issue being

climate change.

And I'm sure that a lot of students would have

different differing opinions and ideas.

And this is the point where we can encourage decision

making and reflect on those decisions and discuss it as

a class.

So we use collaborative thinking to address this.

Are there multiple solutions?

Can you consider alternative reasons and take some time to

reflect on these habits and the ethic model?

So this is where students can use this model in

practice which is by night and Collins.

So I would address this as a teacher in the

classroom, putting it into practice.

So we've got seven questions here that would stimulate the

inquiry based learning and some inquiry questions there about climate

change. And lastly, I got a complete for the climate

change inquiry question mind map that the students would work

through with the teacher as a whole of class approach

to understand inquiry dialogue.

Yeah. Overall, I think that ethical understanding and critical and

creative thinking should be addressed in the costume to promote

reasoning and questioning about the world and allow for students

to be respectfully learning through students, ideas and thoughts.

Thanks for your time.

Have a good afternoon.

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