... that offer authentic arts- integrated student-centered project work to allow them to adopt curriculum stances not experienced as elementary school students. Keywords: arts-integration, attitudes, teacher candidates, Africa, masks, social studies, project-based, student centered, curriculum Introduction...

... is important in everyday life and the workplace. This article describes a mixed-methods study of 65 (59 female, 6 male) pre-service elementary teachers in a social studies methods course reflecting on their participation in an African mask-making project with first and second graders that incorporated both...