Using Meditation in the Classroom

Prepared by Gerard Melito* Using Meditation in the Classroom * Michael C. Moore, Pima Comnmunity College (Tucson, AZ) Inspired, os-perhaps, challenged by the theos-etiper minute? cal foundation of Loz nov's Suggestopedia, I Add to that the required dramatic presentai trod ce af m of meditation accompanied by tionby the teac er and you've got something th t music to my beginning Spanish classes, works for g fted teaches-s who have had extensive I first enc untered the Suggestopedi in Alice training in this m thod logy. Omaggio's Teaching Language in Context: It As I see it, Lozanov's theory is that the was in r duced by G orgi Lozan v (1978), a co sc us mind severely limits the in ake of psychoth rapist a d p ys cian, w o believ s kn wledg . H t orizes that if we can access that laxation tech iques nd con en r t on will the subco scious mind, t at he u ent will b help lea ners tap their subc s iou r sou s f ee to s milate much re ha h ow and ai grea am u t f v cabulary nd does-b com ng a s per e n r. structu es tha t v th u ht possibl (84). Dr. Stevi k um arizes s ollows: To be Rese rch l me to Earl St vi k' t cle, gi ith, I see Sugg toped s being ba d n In erpr ti d A a t ng Loz v' P h soh e assumptio : (1) hat l arning involv s he y (Olle , Ch t r 9). Dr. Stevick d 't u conscious fu c ions f t lear er, as claim to be knowledgeable about the the conscious functions; and (2) that people can Suggestopedia, nor does he use these methods in heam much faster than they usually do, but (3) his own classes, but Reading about Sugthat learning is held back by (a) the norms and g s p dia a me to do ng om thi gs h t limit i ns whi soci t has taug t u , I'm g a I d d v ugh m lv s (b) ha k f a ar on u , re x d working o ld n v r b c lled ex mples of Sugg st get o ll pa t of t r, a d by (c) edi (O l r, 116). c eq e t f ur a u e of p w s whic D . L z v's app oach s b n imp i l os pe ple m s of he t me. nt i h ic l c lege l sro , bu h s T stra gy f S gg s op di , t e f r , is to

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