‘Ma’am, exactly what is a peer guide meant to do? Do we just take the guests around the exhibition?’—a slightly hesitant question from a student before we set up the exhibition. The international travelling exhibition ‘ Anne Frank—A History for Today’ was set up at the South City International School, Kolkata, having been to Bangalore,…
The Anne Frank- A History for Today exhibition just wound up at the South City International School, Kolkata today. This is what some of the peer guides had to say about their experiences. I had a really good experience. I learnt a lot. I had already read the diary of Anne Frank in Class 7…
I was meeting the Human Rights defenders at South City International School after a long break(thanks to final exams), and thought that some theatre would be a good way to get back into the swing of things. We started off with some warm up exercises led by one of the students who plays in the…
The Anne Frank Exhibition at The School KFI (Chennai) began its journey when two teachers from the School – Ms. G. Devika and Ms. Akhila Seshadri – attended the Teaching History workshop held by PeaceWorks, an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts in Kolkata in July-August, 2015. A casual conversation between Ms. Devika…
40! She said, when I asked Madhushree how many participants had signed up for the workshop. This was just before I was boarding the flight to Bangalore. Now, for somebody who is neither a historian, nor a history teacher, the prospect of conducting a Teaching Divided Histories workshop for 40 history teachers can be rather…
