This study was designed to explore children visual thinking peculiarities. Participants were 201 children (133 girls and 68 boys). Firstly, two age groups were formed (6-11; 12-18). Within each age group children were assigned by studies (children attending the school of Art and children from the higher grade school ). Children were shown six topics, which they had to represent (using paper and 12 colors) in such a way, that a stranger could recognize the represented topic. Different results occured. Children in the age 6-11 from the higher grade school used less colors in their drawings, the color didn’t introduse any symbolic meaning, as to the content- it was concrete (94,4%), while 12-18 year old higher grade school children and adolescents and 6-11; 12-18 year old children and adolescents from the school of Art introdused quite opposite results: their drawings were mainly abstract (80,4%, 84,4%, 89%) and carried symbolic meaning of color.

History teaching has its own peculiarities as every teaching subject. At the first sight history teaching is not very different from other subject teaching, but it is not so. For example, while teaching geography, there is a possibility to observe tides, mountains, active volcanes, the change of climate, effect on production etc. While teaching biology, the visual aids can be used observing the researched phenomena, they can also be applied in acknowledgment of this area phenomena. However, it is impossible to see the past directly learning history. There are no more wars and battles, peace, country borders exchange, solemn wows, which used to be given, revolutions and rebellions. It is only possible to imagine them. That means, that the demand of visual thinking, which could only be realized by visual arts, appears in this case, and in the case of history taught at school history coursebooks, illustrations are needed. The aim of the work is to show that illustrations of history help to develop visual thinking. The object of research is the development of visual thinking during history lessons. The objectives of the work are to analyze philosophical, pedagogical, phychological literature, studies of art, related to the analysed topic, to show the conception of visual thinking, to present the survey of history coursebooks polygraphic development and the survey of illustrations art change, to research educational premises in the development of visual thinking. In this work the... [to full text]

In this work is analysed problem – younger and older teenager and young adult visual thinking peculiarities and education. Objective of this research is to find younger and older teenager and young adult visual thinking peculiarities and provide recomendation for education of visual thinking. Research task: 1. To analyse visual thinking development singularities in nonfiction education and psichological literature. 2. Compare younger and older teenager and young adult visual abstractiveness level. 3. Compare younger and older teenager and young adult colow expression of images expressing notions: „happyness“, „anger“, „fear“, „sorrow“, „fault“, „shame“. 4. Compare younger and older teenager and young adult expression using shapes of theese notions („happyness“, „anger“, „fear“, „sorrow“, „fault“, „shame“). In this work used theese methods of objective: analyse of science literature, grapic objective, that is drawing task, data – processing using PC (SPSS package), statistics. I have used graphic research methodology provided by D. Jurkšaitė (1982): using colors and shapes express six notions („happyness“, „anger“, „fear“, „sorrow“, „fault“, „shame“). In this research used these colors: yellow, orange, pink, red, hirsch, light blue, blue, purple, salad-bowl, green, brown, black. Task perform time infinitive. In objective attendanced 150 respondents, in three age groups: 50 younger teenagers, 15-16 years, 50 older teenagers,18-21 years and 50 young adults, 22-27 years... [to full text]