"Comics implementation" in training content: positive or negative trends for the development of education activity technologies

Abstract

 The aspect of the problem of comics using in the educational process as one of the most effective forms of realization of teaching content is considered. The article prompted a look at the technological capabilities of comics’ form of communication through the division of educational information and allowing the student to form independently a general view of the world.

The features of the formation of mental functions in the age group, which is the largest consumer of comics’ production, namely age of sensitive, pubertal development with the emotional upheaval, such as childhood, adolescence and youth.

Scientists-educators, who are considering the didactic use of comics in Ukraine, are interested in specifics of this genre, the reasons for their rejection by our mentality and the ability of assimilation into national culture, the perception peculiarities of comics by children, their didactic properties and future in education.

A number of scientists studying the issue have a position that comics look as "foreigners" in our culture, since the civilization that has been developed on the territory of Ukraine is mostly verbal. The main mean of communication for us is language; meanwhile the main body that delivers information to the brain is eyes (70%). It is believed among scientists that because of this contradiction, comics are not perceived with proper reverence in our state. To our opinion comics just contributes to the solution of this quite controversial problem of Ukrainian cultural space built on language mechanisms: contradiction of the psychophysiology of human body and mind. However, this issue has not yet found definitive scientific evidence.

Comics are widely used in the teaching process, for example, in the study of foreign languages. This example shows many advantages over other traditional training facilities, in particular, educational films in foreign languages. In contrast to the time that "stretches" while watching a movie, comics divide story into fragments and one does not need to keep up with the pace set by a movie. In this sense comics are more organic.

The didactic potential of comics in our country is greatly underestimated and almost never used in the field of education. Today the same characters are often similar in comics and children's favourite movies. Having watched a cartoon about modern heroes, a young audience is very keen on them, but the dynamic images of favourites heroes "escape" from the child mind, so it is difficult to keep them, and certainly, he can not own them. Comics satisfy this child desire and create the illusion of the hero's life, because it captures a moment of movement. Thanks to comics a favourite image is always with a child, he has it in his hands, kid not only has, but we can say that he has some power over him. Any way the main reason of comics’ popularity is that they greatly simplify and speed up the learning process. The most important task of comics is to express as much as possible in a visual images. Human understands the reality with the help of some updating schemes of perception and imagination.