Literature

  • Alguacil Buchna, Gloria: SUGESTOPEDIA – Pedagogía Desugestiva: educar a nivel de las capacidades potenciales del cerebro. 2021

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  • Gateva, EvelynaCreating Wholeness through Art. Sofia 1982, London/Minneapolis 1991.

  • Hagiwara, Kazuhiko: The role of semiosis and affordance in the suggestopedia language classroom. 2020, Dissertation – University of South Australia.

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  • Hetland, Jorunn & Lunde, Katrin: Second language acquisition: New perspectives. – A critical investigation into the Lozanov method. 2021, Norwegian Report on Suggestopedia

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  • Lozanov, GeorgiSuggestology and the Outlines of Suggestopedia. Sofia 1971, New York 1978, Montreal 1984.

  • Lozanov, Georgi & Gateva, EvelynaThe Foreign Language Teacher’s Suggestopedic Manual. Sofia 1981, Rome 1983, Tierp 1984, New York/London/Paris 1988.

  • Lozanov, GeorgiSUGGESTOPEDIA – DESUGGESTIVE TEACHING – Communicative Method on the Level of the Hidden Reserves of the Mind. Vienna 2005. (This text is a non-published draft English translation of Dr. Lozanov´s book published in Bulgarian in 2005. Dr. Lozanov published later a revised and expanded version of this translation in 2009).

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  • Lozanov, GeorgiSUGGESTOPEDIA/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.

  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (1978): Suggestology and Suggestopedia. Theory and Practice.

According to the UNESCO report, Suggestopedia is the most adequate methodology for combating illiteracy. UNESCO experts in Medicine, Psychology and Pedagogy have confirmed that compared to other pedagogical approaches, Suggestopedia achieves faster learning outcomes, along with positive effects on the personality and health of the learners, in the sense that there are no negative side-effects from learning huge amounts of information, like tension, fatigue or other didactogenic diseases.

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