ABSTRACT
This chapter aim to simplify and comprehend important and perhaps complex lineages and to liberate the students who can express themselves best, and most naturally, in visual, non-verbal form. It highlights the fact that genealogies are often interesting, controversial and subjective. The 'family tree' idea is just one way of using diagrams to explain and explore important issues. There is also the 'time-chart' concept, whereby students are asked to represent an important, and perhaps problematic, chronology in the form of a graphic, with all key dates and events represented and explained. The students are broken up into groups of three and each group is asked to produce a family tree diagram to represent, and also to simplify, the key tradition.
