SYSTEM OF DR. VLADIMIR PH. BAZARNY AND HIS DISCIPLES IS A WAY FROM THE HEALTH-DESTRUCTIVE TO HEALTH­DEVELOPING UPBRINGING SYSTEM. IT IS A PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF DISEASES CAUSED BY OVERSTRAIN OF PUPILS AND GROWN-UPS DURING THE EPOCH OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION AND INFORMATION SOCIETY.

The scientific and technological revolution as well as informatization of along with many benefits have evoked also stormy growth of the so called diseases of civilization [diseases of heart, mind, backbone, vision and others]. As a result of research carried out under supervision of Vladimir Ph. Bazarny, MD at the Faculty for Developing Sensor Systems [Institute for Medical Problems of the Northern Peoples, Siberian Dep. of the Academy of Medical Science, USSR], there have been stated the primary roots of their emerging These are: the traditional ‘European’ setup of the lesson, teaching methods and ways of transition of information, as well as some latest brand new school reforms. To understand all this it,s enough to enter a classroom of the primary school students and to see how our children write, draw or read. We will see that during the classes most of the children assume an unnatural bent posture and having grabbed the pen, literally move their noses upon their book or writing­ book.

Such irregular posture as it may be seen has turned out to be just a reflection of their extreme internal strain, which includes sensor, psychogenic and neuro-vegetative mechanisms. 11,s been stated that children’s being in such a state for continuously long a time is a basis for arresting and suppressing their development, including the whole class of diseases of strain caused by the school period [myopia, neuro-psychic and cardio-vascular deviations, spine pathologies and others], from which the over­straining diseases of grown-ups of the scientific and technological revolution emerge and develop.

As a result of the carried out research mechanisms of facilitating the forming and supporting of school students in the conditions of the above mentioned strain have been revealed. These mechanisms are:

• Lack of science based strain-free technologies for children’s acquiring reading and writing techniques;
  
• Holding classes with children in traditional sitting postures and in the mode of truncated book deadlocks which don’t allow the free development of neurodynamic processes in the brain;
• Misbalanced accelerated ‘over-jump’ from the sensual [related to the right brain hemisphere] to the verbal [left hemisphere] methods of teaching and passing the information;
• Finally, such world-wide school reforms as changing the old feather pen for the globe-pen and the desks with the bent surface for the ones with the horizontal.

As a result of the carried out research a new direction of science has been worked out, which synthesizes the theory of teaching and the theory of developing of health, — Health Developing Pedagogic. It includes the principles of no straining mastering of reading and writing techniques from early childhood, holding classes in the mode of vertical positioning of the body and of the dynamic postures, panorama vision and visual horizons, orientating-searching activity and sensory drilling facilities, devices for individual and group hygiene of visual labour and mush more.

The system having been tested in many areas of this country and in a number of countries abroad has proved to be highly effective for freeing the process of physical and mental development of children, including preventing strain caused diseases during the school period [myopia, cardio-vascular and neuro­psychic deviations, body bearing disturbances and others which are the basis for strain caused diseases of grown­ups, now that society undergoes its scientific and technological revolution and keeps becoming real information society.

Vladimir Ph. Bazarny M.D.

Partizana Zheleznyaka, 1 ‘B’

Institute for Medical Problems of Northern Peoples at the Siberian Dep. of Academy for Med. Sc. USSR

SU-660022 Krasnoyarsk, USSR