Didactic image, its importance, conditions and controls for its use

Abstract

The integration of visual arts into the educational learning process contributes to raising the degree of scientific awareness and keeping pace with the development witnessed in the philosophy of education and international education systems. Among the forms of visual arts, we find the image, this medium that occupies a prominent place in the educational field, as through it the emotional, physical, psychological, cognitive and mental aspects of the learner are developed. And through it, the teacher and the learner can both practice understanding and explaining on the grounds that the image, whether fixed or animated, as carrying denotative and connotative significations, as it brings understanding closer to the minds away from abstraction, and thus the didactic image has many functions that are used in the process of teaching and learning, which made it is characterized by being an important and necessary pedagogical tool in the educational field, in addition to its quality mainly linked to its good selection and usage pattern. Therefore, in this article, we will try to talk about the role of visual arts in general, and the image in particular, in educational and learning practice, in order to be in line with scientific and cognitive progress and the improvement of language learning, through:

• Clarifying what is meant by visual arts and its relationship to the educational aspect;
• The requirements of the didactic image and its necessary conditions in educational practice;
• The importance of the image in promoting didactic research;
• How to use the picture in teaching the Arabic language to improve learning;

In order to achieve these goals, the descriptive analytical approach was relied on to serve and the nature of the subject under study