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Georgi Lozanov SUGGESTOPEDIA/ RESERVOPEDIA THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE LIBERATING STIMULATING PEDAGOGY ON THE LEVEL OF THE HIDDEN RESERVES OF THE HUMAN MIND To the memory of Prof. Dr. Evelyna Gateva who brought Art and Beauty into my life and into my work To the memory of Prof. Dr. Ema nuii Sharankov who gave his unfailing support to the innovative and humanitarian spirit of Suggestopedia in the first difficult years All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for a brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any fo rm or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise - with out written permission of the authors. © 2009 Georgi Lozanov © 2009 Boris Dimovsky, caricatures © 2009 Elena Terzieva, colour illustration ISBN 978-954-07-2936-7 St. Kliment Ohridski University Press Georgi Lozanov SUGGESTOPEDIA/RESERVOPEDIA THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE LIBERATING STIMULATING PEDAGOGY ON THE LEVEL OF THE HIDDEN RESERVES OF THE HUMAN MIND Sofia 2009 St. Kliment Ohridski University Press SUGGESTOPEDIA / RESERVOPEDIA IS AN ART OF TEACHING AND LEARNING, WHERE ALL THE RESERVES OF PERSONALITY ARE BEING TAPPED WITH LOVE 4 Suggestopedic / Reservopedic teaching methods (not only for foreign languages but also for all other school disciplines) are completely different from all other methods of teaching. After continuous research, twenty UNESCO experts from different coun tries came to the following conclusions: "1. There is consensus that Suggestopedia is a generally superior teaching method for many subjects and for many types of students, compared with traditional methods. 2. Suggestopedic teacher training should be started as soon as pos sible. 3 . .................................... ,, (Published in the USA: The Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learn ing and Teaching, volume 3, issue 3, Fall, 1978, p.211) We should never ever forget that, in this world of incredibly rapid implementation of innovations in all spheres of science, we should not remain at the level of the pseudo morality of past epochs but morality should make a decisive step forward unless we want to tragically devastate our children and ourselves. The best way to liq uidate something very good is not to reject it, but to accept it and, without proper qualifications, to imitate it. We wouldn't advise anyone to try any of the methods described here without consulting a trainer recommended by Dr. G. Lozanov. Many things cannot be described on paper. They have to be seen and experienced. For example, the intonation of the voice of the teacher through the whole proc ess of teaching and not only during the concert session, or how the teach ing process should oscillate, or how to use peripheral perceptions which are extremely important for acquisition, etc. You should require a signed and stamped certificate from the trainer. 5 Acknowledgments I would like to express my deep gratitude and recognition to all those people of merit who in the very first years of the development of suggesto pedia as a science gave it their unhesitating support: Prof Dr Ilya Zacharievich Velvovski, a world - known Ukrainian psy chiatrist and psychotherapist with discoveries in the area of suggestology, who organized experimental suggestopedical courses and supported the development of suggestopedia. Luidmila Zhivkova, a Minister of Culture in Bulgaria during the com munist regime, who championed the idealistic and humanitarian character of suggestopedia in the hardest times. Dr Josef Bandion, the director of the Ludwig Boltzman Geselschaft Institute, Vienna, Austria and collaborator of the President of Austria, who provided us with peaceful working conditions in Austria. I would also like to thank all the noble scholars from all over the world that saw the humanitarian philosophy and the scientific corroboration of suggestopedia and advocated it in their research and publications. In the very early stage when the present book was started, Bill Munro and Lupe Escamilla, San Diego, U.S.A, were very kind to edit it and to advise me on some topics. Five years later, when the book was enlarged, it was very con siderate of Czeslawa Rudawska, Katowice, Poland to edit it. It was very kind of Keneward Hill, Sofia, Bulgaria, to edit the book before its first publication. I am indebted to Radostina Ivanova Mihaleva, Sofia, Bulgaria who was very kind to translate the parts of the book about the latest development of suggestopae dia-desuggestive teaching. My heartfelt gratitude goes to Setsuko Iki, Tokyo, Japan, for her help with providing me with favourable conditions for writing. I am also very grateful for the contribution of Leo Boudreau, Ottawa, Canada and Setsuko Iki who made valuable suggestions for this expanded edition of my original book, extensively reviewed its English translation and edited it. I am deeply grateful to the late associate professor Gloria Marie Caliendo, USA, fo r her dedication to suggestopedia/reservopedia and for her enthusiasm to contribute to the final edition of the book - a desire prevented solely by her untimely demise. 7 Finally, I would also like to thank my young collaborator Vanina Bodu rova, Bulgaria, who, when I started losing my sight because of my old age, lent me her eyes to read and when I started losing my dexterity lent me her A, hands to write. PI PJ O' 0 8 CONTENTS Acknowledgments / 7 PREFACE/ 13 PART ONE OVERVIEW OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF SUGGESTOPEDIA/RESERVOPEDIA / 15 1. Are there any virgin, unconquered "lands" in the brain/mind? Are there reserve capacities? / 17 2. What are the brain/mind reserve capacities? What is the reserve complex in Suggestopedia/Reservopedia? / 18 2.1 Reserve Capacities/ 18 2.1.1 The Phenomenon Hypermnesia / 20 2.1.2 Chaotic and Transitory Hypermnesia in Clinics/ 21 2.1.3 The Search for Hypermnesia in Everyone/ 24 2.2 The Suggestopedic Reserve Complex/ 26 3. The Origin of Suggestopedia/Reservopedia. The Early experiments with the Reserve Capacities of Mind and Brain / 29 3.1 Early Experiments in Medicine with the Reserve Capacities of the Brain/Mind / 29 3.2 Spontaneously Absorbed, Non-Manipulative, Communicative Suggestion in Psychotherapy/ 36 3.3 Early Teaching Experiments with the Reserves of Mind/ 39 Description of the 1965 experiment/ 40 Description of the 1966 experiment/ 41 3.4 Evolution of the Suggestopedic/Reservopedic Learning System/ 43 3.4.1 The Integral Psychotherapy Model/ 43 3.4.2 Towards a Suggestopedic Methodology/ 44 3.5 False Versions of Suggestopedia/Reservopedia / 47 4 . Which Suggestology? Which Suggestion? Which Suggestopedia/Reservopedia? / 50 4.1 Suggestology and Suggestion / 50 4.2 Spontaneously Absorbed, Non-manipulative Suggestion in Suggestopedia/ Reservopedia / 52 4.3 The Psycho- Physiological Bases of Suggestology (Reservology) / 53 4.4 The Seven Laws (Condicio Sine Qua Non) of Suggestopedia/Reservopedia / 55 4.5 The Means of Suggestopedia/ Reservopedia / 61 9 4.6 Outline of the Methodology of Reservopedia / 66 PART TWO THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK/ 71 5. Global - Partial; Partial - Global/ 73 6. The Golden Proportion / 76 6.1 What Is in Fact the Golden Proportion?/ 76 6.2 The Golden Proportion in Reservopedia / 81 7. Spontaneously Absorbed, Non-Manipulative Suggestion as Art and in Art/ 82 8. Hypnosis and its Dangers/ 87 8.1 Types of Human Communication / 87 8.2 When Does Hypnosis Occur?/ 87 8.3 What Dangers Does Hypnosis Entail?/ 90 9. Relaxation / 95 10. Placebo/ 97 11. Paraconsciousness / 100 12. Peripheral Perceptions/ 101 12.1 Peripheral Perceptions and Suggestion / 101 12.2 Non-Specific Communicative Means/ 103 12.2.1 The Importance of Prestige/ 104 13. Multiple Personality/ 107 13.1 The Phenomenon of Multiple Personality/ 107 13.2 Multiple Personality and Reservopedia / 114 14. Social Suggestive Norms/ 117 15. Antisuggestive Barriers/ 119 16. The problem of Brain/Mind / 121 16.1 Functional Organization of the Brain / Mind / 121 16.2 Faceted Functional Structure of the Brain/ 128 16.3 Brain Vs Mind / 132 17. Theory of Teaching-Learning within Reservopedia / 134 18. Non-psychotherapeutic, Non-Psychohygenic and Non-Physiological Approaches in Pedagogy/ 137 PART THREE RESERVOPEDIA IN PRACTICE/ 143 19. Teaching Foreign Languages/ 145 19.1 The Psychophysiology of the Linguistic Iceberg/ 145 19.2 Description of t he Four Stages in the Lesson Structure/ Suggestopedic Cycle/ 147 19.3 The Suggestopedic Foreign Language Textbook/ 162 10 19.4 Results of Reservopedic Foreign Language Teaching for Adults/ 163 20. The Reservopedic System for Teaching al l Subjects in School and Pre-school age/ 166 21. Interdisciplinary Relations/ 170 22. Teaching Reading in the First Grade/ 173 22.1 Method / 173 22.2 Results of the Reservopedic Teaching of Reading/ 176 23. Teaching Writing in the First Writing in the First Grade/ 179 23.1 Method/ 179 23.2 Results of the Reservopedic Teaching of Writing / 180 24. Teaching Mathematics in the First Grade/ 180 24.1 Method / 180 24.2 Effectiveness of the Reservopedic Teaching of Mathematics / 183 25. Teaching a Narrative Subject (History, for example) in the Upper Grades/ 185 25.1 Method / 185 25.2 Results /186 26. The Psychotherapeutic Effects of Reservopedia / 186 27. The Skills that Teachers Acquire during Teacher Training/ 195 PART FOUR VALIDATION OF RESERVOPEDIA / 199 28. Experimental Proof in Bulgaria and in Vienna, Austria at the State Pedagogical Institue and the Learning Research Institute/ 201 28.1 Experiments in Bulgaria / 201 28.2 Experiments in Vienna, Austria/ 201 29. Many State offices and Specialists in Bulgaria Confirmed and Guaranteed the High Results of Reservopedia / 205 30. Confirmation of the Results by 20 UNESCO Experts and their Recommendations /209 EPILOGUE/ 214 Brief Biography/ 216 eferences / 222 eferences - Cyrillic/ 228 11 PREFACE Many will ask why the author of the scientific terms "Suggestology" and "Sug gestopedia",1 50 years after their creation and their dissemination in many coun tries, offers new scientific concepts, "Desuggestology", "Desuggestopedia", "Res ervopedia" and "Reservology".