What are the answers to life’s big questions?
This unit explores Freedom through the Rastafari Religion
This term your will learn about rastafari history and culture. It is ntended to be taught as a programme of learning to introduce students to a religion which is prominent within Bristol. The final task will be producing a piece of artwork entitled ‘Where is freedom?’ The focus here is to explore the theme of freedom for a Rastafarian and themselves. This is done by looking at the theological, historical, social, economic, geographic and cultural influences on the growth of Rastafari as a religion and on its followers’ perception and expression of freedom. By the end of the programme students should know differences and similarities between Rastafari and other Abrahamic religions in relation to belief and practices. This programme of learning enables students to practice and develop skills they have in acquired in Art and Music lessons.
A homework project can run alongside the 7 lessons of this programme of study. The task here is to lyrically design, compose and record a reggae track by rewriting a psalm for today’s world.
