{"id":3412,"date":"2025-03-25T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/?page_id=3412"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:44:42","slug":"curriculum-and-lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/pedagogical-resources\/curriculum-and-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum and Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

K-12 Lesson Plans from the Boston University African Studies Center\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Masks and masquerades have been a contentious subject in teaching about Africa, for the obvious reason that they have been taught reductively, in a decontextualized way, and have been appropriated in ways that are not respectful of people\u2019s actual practices they come from. These two curriculum units created by Alumni from the BU Masters in Art Education<\/a> and the Teaching Africa Program<\/a> present a culturally responsive way of teaching about masks that engages students with mask-making without appropriation, reduction, or reproduction.<\/p>\n

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Teacher-made exemplar by Paula Mans<\/h6>\n

Dancing with the ancestors: A study of Egungun Masquerades and Nick Cave\u2019s Soundsuits,<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Pre-K-K unit designed by Paula Mans<\/h3>\n

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Teacher-made exemplar by Marie Darling<\/h6>\n

Exploring Identity through Yoruba culture, Masks, and the Contemporary Artists of the Diaspora<\/a>, 6th-7th grade unit designed by Marie Darling<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

K-12 Lesson Plans from the Boston University African Studies Center\u00a0 Masks and masquerades have been a contentious subject in teaching about Africa, for the obvious reason that they have been taught reductively, in a decontextualized way, and have been appropriated in ways that are not respectful of people\u2019s actual practices they come from. These two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24444,"featured_media":0,"parent":3058,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3412\/revisions\/3413"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/womenandmasks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}