Principles

Practical ideas for their application

There are unused capacities of the human brain/psyche

Absolute faith in the reserves (Hypermnesia, Hypercreativity, Spontaneous Cure from didactogenic diseases)

• Manifold increased input ( 5 times more and faster)

Infantilisation (becoming children again)

Mother tongue natural acquisition processes

• Toys, games, songs, dances

Learning is both conscious and unconscious

Scenario-based / experiential learning

• False identities / peripheral perception stimuli on POSTERS / meaningful repetitions

LOVE

Motherly love = fading scaffolding

• Gradual progress from T centred to L centred learning

FREEDOM

Tender suggestion VS authoritative commands

• False identities / Teacher as facilitator

Whole-brain learning

Multi-sensory input / multiple intelligences / differentiation

• Balanced emphasis on both hemispheres

 (analysis / synthesis, reading/playing, sitting down/dancing etc)

Passive knowledge (recognition) is of the same value as active knowledge (production)

The pyramid of knowledge: (greater volume at the bottom where passive knowledge accumulates and less volume at the top where there is production)      

• Taking time for output

Constructivist approach to learning (building up new knowledge on the basis of the existing knowledge) 

•  Translation in the mother tongue

Global-partial and partial-global treatment

Exposure to global units (normal discourse, chunks of speech) Integration of elements (words, letters, grammatical phenomena) within the global units all the time each time 

• INTRODUCTION of each new UNIT

• Songs  

Classical aesthetics

Suggestive Power of Classical Art and Music=Suggestopedagogy

• RECITAL and CONCERT (active and passive sessions)

• Artistic materials (textbook, posters) and activities

The Golden Proportion

Harmonious alternation and balance between 

• Active and passive learning activities

• Analysis and Synthesis

• Cognitive and emotional stimulation etc

Concentrative psychorelaxation

Mental alertness with physical relaxation = increased perception

• Suggestive atmosphere

• Classical Music