Graphology in Academia.

1
Graphology in Academia.

• An investigation into the inclusion of
  graphology in education
• By
• Nigel Bradley

2
1. Academics want to investigate graphology
3
2. Academics have already investigated graphology
4
3. Academics do investigate graphology now.
5
4. Graphologists want to collaborate with
academics.
6
5. Graphologists are reluctant to collaborate
with academics.
7
6. Various academic disciplines are relevant to
graphology

• They include law, psychology, sociology etc.

8
7. Graphology has been included in education in
different ways

• description,
• Evaluation,
• Experimentation
• by staff
• By post-graduates
• By undergraduates
• and even by school pupils.

9
8. Projects vary in time

• 2 hours,
• 2 weeks,
• 1 month,
• one semester
• rarely longer, and this is a problem

10
9. Teaching of graphology has taken place at
different levels

• one lecture,
• short course,
• up to 3 years
• part time and full time

11

• Société Française de Graphologie
• Urbino
• Lumsa (Rome)
• Ministry of Education of Argentina
• Emerson University College, Buenos Aires. 

12

• Loughborough
• Universidad de Valencia,
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• (Estudios Criminología and Facultad de Medecina),
  
• Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca,
• Universidad de Córdoba, 
• Universidad de Barcelona

13

• Heidelberg,
• Cologne, Summer schools
• Prescott College in Arizona
• Munich,  Fribourg,
• Hamburg, Bielefeld,
• Berlin Messina.

14
My conclusion is that

• Graphology needs to be present in academia
• to develop
• and to be accepted as a legitimate tool.

15
Graphology in Academia.

• An investigation into the inclusion of
  graphology in education
• By Nigel Bradley, University of Westminster.
• Email bradlen_at_wmin.ac.uk
• Prepared for a lecture at the International
  Graphological Colloquium in Dijon, France
• 20 April 2002