The Shichida Method

Discoveries of Japanese Educator Dr. Makoto Shichida (Japan)

by Celeste A. Miller, Ph.D., Winona State University, USA

Celeste A. Matthews, Ph.D. is a professor of early childhood ard elementary education at Winona State Univ., Minnesota. She is dedicated to educational reform based on applying brain research to eady childhood curriculum innovation. Dr. Matthews has been training under Dr. Shichida in right brain education techniques for three years. Dr. Matthews is fluent in Japanese and hopes to do research in Japan some day soon.

Introducing Dr. Makoto Shichida

Dr. Shichida is a participant in a world,wide revolution in education which is changing the way we understand children, their brain capabilities, and their learning styles  He is a wellknown public figure in Japan, having committed the past forty years to experimenting with techniques to stimulate early development of right brain education in children beginning in the womb and continuing through adulthood. Over the years, he has founded 330 Child Academies in Japan and one in the U.S. for Japanese nationals, where he trains parents to teach their own children to develop right brain abilities which seem almost impossible to explain. His latest book, Super Brain Revolution, is currently on the Japanese best seller list. He has written many other books about what he calls “right brain education " Dr. Shichida frequently travels to the U.S. and other countries to lecture and give workshops on his work with right brain education.

This article is intended to encapsulate the main ideas of Dr. Shichida taken from his four English publications, a series of Japanese videos, and two week end workshops given in November of 1996 and 1997. This writer does not presume to understand or represent all facets of his theory of right brain education, but rather seeks to integrate his theories into something more bite size and introductory.

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