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Creativity, activity, service (CAS) is one of the three essential elements that every student must complete as part of the Diploma Programme (DP). Studied throughout the Diploma Programme, CAS involves students in a range of activities alongside their academic studies. Although it is not formally assessed, students are required to develop or participate in a CAS project, write and develop CAS relfections, and lead or participate in CAS experiences.
During the CAS learning journey, students engage in continuous practices of reflection, reflexivity, and critical reflexivity as a means of informing, reforming and transforming. The depth of reflecting will differ throughout the process but include:
• Reflection: the active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it trends. (Values, feelings, thinking, actions & contexts)
• Critical Reflection: the process of analyzing, reconsidering, and questioning experiences within a broad context of issues.
• Reflexivity: finding strategies to question our own attitudes, thought processes, values,
assumptions, prejudices, and habitual actions, to strive to understand our complex roles in relation to others.
• Critical Reflexivity: increase self and other awareness, improve social understanding and contextual perception through a better understanding of the power dynamics at play, more attentiveness to values and identity, linking agency to moral responsibility, and social rather than more limited individual transformative performance.
Furthermore, students can demonstrate the reflective process through writing, blogging, audio journals, videos, artwork, music or other formats.
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