The Selection of Visual Materials
Abstract
The Selection of Visual Materials SAGE Publications, Inc.1955DOI: 10.1177/001789695501300304 W. Emrys Davies The Central Council for Health Education VISUAL materials form an essential part of the equipment of the health educator. ivith their help teaching methods- may be rendered more effective, authentic learning may be secured, and time and effort may be saved in the teaching and learning process. If, however, full advantage is to be taken of visual aids, the same careful thought must be given by the educator to their selection as is normally devoted to the preparation of verbal materials. It may be profitable, therefore, to consider some of the guiding principles which the health educator should apply when faced with the problem of selecting the most effective aids from the mass of available materials. Obviously the first requirement of an educational aid is that it should be relevant to the content to be learned. But it is not enough to select an aid that is relevant: it should be also the most appropriate. Thus, while a diagram designed to assist a verbal description of the structure of the human ear is wholly relevant to its subject, it will be less effective in use than