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Study Technology, or Study Tech, is a teaching method developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.〔 Study Technology is used by Scientologists as part of their training, and is also promoted outside the church by an affiliated corporation known as Applied Scholastics, which presents Study Technology as a secular, universally applicable method to enhance the comprehension of any student, studying any topic. However, the method has many critics, including former teachers, claiming that the "technology" and associated schools are intrinsically linked with religious aspects of Scientology. Hubbard wrote in a Scientology policy letter in 1972 that "Study Tech is our primary bridge to Society."〔Hubbard, L. Ron (4 April 1972). ''Ethics and Study Tech'', Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters.〕 Most Study Technology books include a two-page biography of Hubbard that does not mention his role in creating Scientology.J. Gordon Melton, a well-known religious scholar, said that Hubbard wrote Study Tech materials to respond to people who came into the church being dysfunctional in literacy. He further reiterated that the materials are vastly used within the Church of Scientology “not to proselytize for the religion but to teach people how to read.” == Theory == According to Study Technology, there are three barriers that prevent students from learning: absence of mass, too steep a gradient, and the misunderstood word. Each barrier will, according to Hubbard, produce a physiological response in the student, such as yawning or feeling bored or frustrated. In accordance with L. Ron Hubbard's beliefs, the school eschews all psychiatric conditions, including any learning difficulties. Gail M. Harley and John Kieffer (2009) write that "absence of mass" is the idea that abstractions must be illustrated physically before they can be fully understood: learning about trains is accelerated if the student can see a train or a representation of one. Scientology classrooms are therefore equipped with modelling clay and "demo kits." One of the course requirements for people learning to be Scientology trainers is to model in clay the premise of every paragraph in Hubbard's book, ''Dianetics 55!''.〔Harley, Gail M. and Kieffer, John (2009). "The Development and Reality of Auditing," in James R. Lewis (ed.). ''Scientology''. Oxford University Press, pp. 192–193.〕 "Too steep a study gradient" occurs when the student tries to learn too quickly, in which case the teacher directs the student back to the point where he last demonstrated understanding. The "misunderstood word" is what Hubbard called the "misunderstood definition or the not comprehended definition, the undefined word."〔 Scientology classrooms are therefore equipped with different kinds of dictionaries, and students are directed to "find your misunderstood."〔 Yawning is taken as a physical sign that a student has misunderstood a word or concept.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Study Tech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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