Only Connect- Charney Manor 2019 conference presentation. February 2019.

A reflection on how teachers develop meaningful ways to teach about distant places. Imogen Sahi and Kiran Sahi. February 2019.

In February every year a group of Geography teachers gather together in a wonderful Quaker conference centre in Oxfordshire. They include teachers, educationalists, lecturers in Geography. All share a huge enthusiasm and intellectual interest in developing really good teaching methodogies for the teaching of Geography. We have been honoured to be part of this group for the last three years, and this year Kiran and Imogen were asked to present, and they chose the topic of connections.

The presentation examined the many and diverse ways that India is seen and ‘known’, attached to and represented both from within and without. They looked at the problem with prosaic data information about distant places. They then went on to look at the challenge that teachers have when teaching about distant places: To connect what is known from isolated information, to what is understood meaningfully, and they introduced ideas for teaching tools that they have seen being used, in distant place teaching.

We would be very happy to share the ppt of the presentation with anyone who would like to see it. X