... participation in a practicum experience teaching an arts-integrated unit on Africa. These curriculum issues included arts-integrated project-based learning versus narrower skill-based lessons; the importance of creativity, leadership, organizational, and affective skills; and student-centered versus teacher...

... to be confident enough to undertake them in their future classrooms and suggest that such projects be part of social studies methods courses. Keywords: Africa, Arts-integration, Masks, Pre-service teachers, Social studies methods, Spatial skills Introduction Integration of the arts into social studies learning...