research from the stand point of the psycholinguist... a lot of methods... my method is different from the suggestopedia.
Suggestopedia is many things to many people.
Dr. Lozanov is just about the only person who makes any hard-and-fast lines of distinction between what *is* suggestopedia (that's what he does) and what *isn't* suggestopedia (that's what anyone else does :-) ).
But it must be evident that anything which aims to be 'wholistic', or 'whole-person' education, must be eclectic, and use everything which might work. Lozanov is critical of people who try out thing s which he hasn't himself first tried and tested and approved, for fear of them causing psychological damage, and doing it in his name: and of course one can understand and sympathise with that...
At the same time, what is the alternative? A colossal amount of psychological damage is being done all the time by teachers who aren't aware of the effect of what they say and do, and those who have an inner need to misuse their power: so *any* thoughtful and sensitive attempt to improve on that by monitoring what goes on in the learners and being sensitive to feedback (expressed and observed) must be better than that. Lozanov can't teach everyone who wants to learn, and in the end each teacher stands there with their own learners and makes their own judgements about what to do from one moment to the next. A method can be good; a methodology still better; best of all is a constructive attitude and a human awareness coupled with an imaginative resourcefulness.
There are people with skills in fields which Lozanov never had a chance to expereince in his Bulgarian isolation; and, as I said before, even at the technical level of which music to used for the suggestopedic first concert reading, there is repertoire which he never even had a chance to hear, never mind test...
When I work with suggestopedic teacher-training, I say that 90% of what I do is Suggestopedia, and I use about 90% of Suggestopedia in what I do: but I trust that *everything* I do is suggestopedic - i.e. aimed at the enhancement of learning and aware of the power and effect of suggestion...
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