ACCREDITATION

For some people, an important motivation for all this is to gain accreditation for suggestopedic courses at a higher level, so that they will qualify for official grants, be seen as more serious by potential clients etc.

WHAT ACCREDITATION DO WE SEEK?

• academic?
• business?
• government?

  FROM WHOM DO WE SEEK ACCREDITATION?

• Who are the appropriate bodies to apply to?

  FOR WHAT ARE WE SEEKING ACCREDITATION?

• How much can we find out about what the accrediting body demands?
• Is it worth doing this at an early stage, to
  • check the feasibiltiy of the project as a whole?
  • to see if such demands need to be considered in our preliminary thinking?
• What emphasis do we place on academic credibility?
• To what extent do our trainers have the credentials a university or accrediting body recognises?
• How do we get recognisition for trainers whoare intuitively brilliant but whose background is in the "university of life" and have no paper qualification?
• To what extent does our claim, to be worth accreditation, rely on the notion that suggestopedia is based on scientifically-documented research results?

We need to recognise that, so far, the oft-quoted results of Dr. Lozanov's reseearch have not been available in a form which gives them credibilty in western academic circles. Another potential source of support, the work at the Karl-Marz University in Leipzig, may be called into question, now that the suggestopedic institute there is apparently being dissolved [any reader have up to date information? please mail me]

• What support can we find in academic circles - SALT Journal? university work? Indepedent studies by companies comparing, e.g. cost-effectiveness of suggestopedia and other methods?

• If an accrediting authority knows that the founder of Suggestopedia offers his own training, and recognises only his own courses, how will it regard an application fom someone else?

It seems clear that he accepts no-one but himself as competent to train suggestopedic teachers.

• Will the situation be different if the certification offered is in an approach which significantly extends the scope of Dr. Lozanov's own model?
• If so, should one be looking for a name which avoids confusion and reflects this broader scope? and describes its characteristics?
• If so, what are they -
  • wholistic?
  • effective?
  • affective?

BACKGROUND AIMS STRATEGIES TRAINING CERTIFICATION ACCREDITATION STEPS TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT FURTHER REFERENCE BRAIN-STORMERS