Applied Scholastics

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Applied Scholastics International (abbreviated ApS , German "Applied Scholasticism international") is a non-profit association , founded in 1972 in Florida . It is currently headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri . He is active in the field of education (both for children and adults).

Study Tech

ApS and it licensed schools and private teachers work after the Study Technology (literally: Study Technology ) with the help of books like Learning How To Learn , officially based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. Although there are no direct allusions to Scientology itself in the content of these books, numerous parallels to Scientology literature can be identified.

The basic statements of this methodology are:

  • Visualization of learning content by demonstration on the original or by making models from clay
  • Compliance with a not too steep learning curve (literally: gradient )
  • Pay particular attention to misunderstood words, the meaning of which is memorized using a dictionary if necessary

These methods are used very consistently because, according to ApS, a lack of motivation, learning disorders and even attention deficit / hyperactivity disorders can be traced back to incorrect learning techniques.

Structure and sales channels

The end customer receives ApS services via a network of tutors who are licensed by ApS and pay fees to the regionally responsible ApS office. These teachers then apply Study Tech in their teaching. Some of these tutoring schools advertise intensively through leaflets and letters to public schools.

In Bjerndrup , Denmark ApS runs a private school and boarding school called Sonderjyllands Internationale Skole .

In the USA , ApS operates a network of private schools under the name Delphi Schools .

Applied Scholastics in German-speaking countries

In 1979, the association Center for Individual and Effective Learning ( ZIEL for short ) was founded in Munich . Like ApS, it is formally independent from the Church of Scientology, but no longer appears in Germany and Austria. The company name ZIEL is only still in use in Switzerland , while Applied Scholastics Germany , based in Zirndorf near Nuremberg , is now responsible for Germany . In September 2008, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg warned against the offers of ApS tutors after cases became known where an ApS teacher had tried to recruit the student and his parents into the Church of Scientology.

criticism

ApS is known for the dissemination of the learning technique Study Tech devised by L. Ron Hubbard . Hubbard is the founder and longtime leader of the Church of Scientology . Although ApS is legally independent from the Scientology organization, it is firmly integrated into the Scientology organizational structure through the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) . So staff and also the students (as in other Scientology institutions) are monitored by so-called ethics officers , who meticulously record their findings and report to the responsible Scientology branch. Auditing (a kind of interrogation ) with e-meters , ethical measures (penal sanctions) and other Scientology indoctrination methods are also carried out regularly in ApS facilities .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact page of ApS. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Scientology's Education Fronts - Scientology's Scriptures Compared to Basic Study Manual (Study Tech). Archived version on archive.org. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010 ; accessed on February 16, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Dr. David Touretzky & Chris Owe: Scientology's Study Technology - Essay. Archived version on archive.org. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011 ; accessed on February 16, 2011 .
  4. ^ Ingo Heinemann: Scientology and tutoring. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
  5. ^ Ingo Heinemann: The Scientology School in Bjerndrup in Denmark. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
  6. ^ Series "Children and Young People in Scientology"; Part 3: Scientology Schools. Archived version on archive.org. Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on September 18, 2013 ; Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
  7. ↑ ABI INFO of December 3, 2004 (PDF; 72 kB) December 22, 2008, accessed on February 15, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Applied Scholastics Germany. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
  9. ^ Series "Children and Young People in Scientology" - Part 2: Tutoring. Archived version on archive.org. Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on September 18, 2013 ; Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
  10. ^ Scientology's Education Fronts - Applied Scholastics International. Archived version on archive.org. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011 ; accessed on February 16, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Ursula Caberta, childhood with Scientology: prohibited! . Munich: Goldmann, 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-15595-8 .