Edu Kinestetik in Hessen - ministries for education and cultural and education offices promote educational Quacksalberei

The German Skeptiker - with concern the society observes the readiness in Hessen for the scientific investigation of Parawissenschaften (GWUP) to promote Parawissenschaften officially.

Many education offices in Hessen, approximately in the districts darmstadt the castle, Lahn Dill and Limburg because castle recommend Edu Kinestetik - also under the name BrainGym admits - as educational measure and promote them. On the Internet side school and health of the hessian ministry for education and cultural are called under the promotion offers expressly Motopdagogik/Edu Kinestetik. And the education server Hessen lists a seminar for January 2007 as advanced training seminar for school psychologists over neurolinguistic programming (NLP). This is now the third case, which suggests that scientificness in the hessian training system is smallwritten.

The GWUP requests the hessian ministry for education and cultural, the further application of pseudoscientific educational or psychological measures such as Edu Kinestetik or NLP, as to be prevented also the promotion of other Pseudowissenschaften and carried ensuring that all ranges of instruction and the Pdagogik are arranged after scientifically secured standards. The promotion of such a mischief endangers the scientific call of Hessen and the Federal Republic of Germany, so the managing director of the GWUP, Amardeo Sarma.

Already doubts about the scientific orientation of the hessian training system became loud, after the hessian Kultusministerin Wolff had strong-made itself several times recently for the treatment of the Christian creation myth in biology instruction and after at the university Kassel a Stiftungsprofessur for biological-dynamic agriculture in the sense of the esoterisch okkultistischen theories of the Anthroposophie had been furnished. With the Edu Kinestetik is added an pseudoeducational measure, which wants to adjust alleged energy false conditions with pupils by different movement exercises.

Starting point of the Edu Kinestetik is the conception decreasing/going back to the traditional Chinese medicine, a cosmic energy (Qi) flows into certain guidance courses (Meridianen) in the human body, which is coupled with organs and muscles. The correct river of this energy is precondition for health as well as achievement and adaptability. For the correction of energetic unequal weights certain movements as well as (following alleged Akupunkturpunkte) pressing certain body places are recommended. These alleged unequal weights are diagnosed by a muscle test (see www.gwup.org/themen/texte/edu_kinestetik/media/edukinestetik.pdf).

The GWUP actually does not turn expressly against gymnastische exercises, refers however to the following facts:

* The Edu Kinestetik misses to each scientific basis: it comes of rather to religious-magic conceptions;

* The attempt to bring these conceptions with modern neuro biology and psychology in agreement failed;

* The muscle test used as diagnostic means is completely unsuitable;

* The effectiveness of the method altogether is not proven.

Something similar applies to neurolinguistic programming: Also this contradicts the realizations of the modern psychology and neuro biology.

Bavarian Staatsinstitut for school quality and education research (ISB) already evaluated and as esoterisch classified 1997 the Edu Kinestetik. Its judgement: The spreading of such models for further discussion may not be promoted nationally; the impression may not develop, it concerns thereby respectable, generally recognized science. As result it holds: Teachers must look for today strengthened for holistic, action and experience-oriented and the movement including methods and use them in instruction. This is a difficult venture. Esoteri ideas and simplifizierende methods are for it no replacement. (ISB work report No. 290, P. 56-57).

An appraisal of the Ludwig Maximilians university Munich comes to the conclusion that the biological views of the Edu Kinesiologie are untenable: You represent a such Simplifizierung and falsification of the procedures of the central nervous system and its complex organization for the regulation from action and Perzeption that the admission of so avowed diagnostic and therapeutic techniques to handling children must worry to a considerable degree. (ISB work report No. 290, plant 2, P. 5).

While these evaluations led in Bavaria to the fact that the Edu Kinestetik disappeared to a large extent as educational measure is obviously operated and promoted, her its regardless of in Hessen with knowledge of the ministry for education and cultural. The following occurrences in Hessen give cause for concern:

* The district Darmstadt/the castle published a parents councellor, in whom parents for school problems the attendance is recommended by Kinesiologen to the beginning of school year 2005/2006 (S.31).

* The national education office for the Lahn Dill circle and the district Limburg because castle maintains a department for neurophysiological child development (ANKE). The chief of this department is called Expertin for reflex integration, Motopdagogik and Edu Kinestetik.

* The department offers motopdagogische and edukinestetische promotion for children and courses for parents, instructors and members of education offices. A close co-operation exists thereby according to own data with the HELP (ehem. hessian Landesinstitut for Pdagogik) and the University of pouring. Also the schoolpsychological service is attached and publicised (e.g. on a conference for force prevention) Edu Kinestetik.

* The experiences with the activities initiated by ANKE became in a book (the moved classroom) in the publishing house for applied Kinesiologie, which publishes internal publishing house of the institute for applied Kinesiologie (Freiburg i.Br.). A positive review with praise for the raid to the Edu Kinestetik was published by the leading director of education office of the education office. Co-author of the book is a Medizinaldirektor i.R. the country Hessen.

* The hessian ministry for education and cultural maintains a field of work school and health, in which a module movement-promoting school is contained. This module relies to a large part on the work of ANKE.

* The hessian ministry for education and cultural (HKM) stresses the model function, those the education office Lahn Dill/Limburg because castle in things prevention by its offer to differentiated perception and movement offers has and promotes the activities expressly (see small one inquiry in the hessian federal state parliament of the delegate Irmer of 4.9.2003). In the year 2006 the HKM organizes a trade conference school and health, on which members of ANKE report. Central request of the conference is among other things, scientific realizations (!) from the education and health research with experiences from practice to unite.

* In a writing to the hessian network school and health are already called in the component movement Motopdagogik, Edu Kinestetik and neuro physiology as central components of the health promotion on the first page.

* Countless schools call (country widely) Edu Kinestetik/BrainGym as component in their school program

* Countless people's highschools offer Edu Kinestetik/Brain Gym.

(The appropriate sources are present the GWUP.)

Sources:
schuleundgesundheit.hessen.de/module/probleme/anke/angebot

starweb.hessen.de/cache/DRS/16/2/00432.pdf

Background informations:

Dog, Wolfgang (1997) a strange egg in the educational nest: Edu Kinestetik. Bavarian school, booklet 4:36 - 37. Walbiner, Waltraud (1997) Edu Kinesiologie. A new welfare way in the Pdagogik Staatsinstitut for Schulpdagogik and education research, Munich (work report No. 290). [in the meantime renamed in Staatsinstitut for school quality and education research] Walker, Barbro (2004) Edu Kinestetik - an educational welfare way A critical analysis. Tectum publishing house, Marburg. www.gwup.org/themen/texte/edu_kinestetik

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