Introduction
International audience ; Why teach with images? What images should be taught? How should they be approached? What do images teach us such that we learn not just from images or through images? How can we make use of their emotional power and analyze our study of them? Bringing together the perspectives of literature, art history, applied arts, film and pedagogy specialists in addition to those of an editor, a novelist, and a graphic designer, this volume traces the history of using images as a pedagogical tool and proposes directions for a new pedagogy of the image. This volume allows contemporary reflections to be informed by the past and for the work of historians to be nuanced by a modern application.The digital revolution offers unprecedented access to a profusion of images but does the body of images thus benefit from some kind of renewal and are our pedagogical practices transformed? The historical perspective proposed in this collection demonstrates that at each important moment in the history of pedagogy, the image is seen as a privileged medium for pedagogical innovation, while crystalizing a certain number of questions that lie at the heart of the debates within the world of education. Comenius was the first to correlate the use of images in language learning with discussions of the idea of educability. At once universal and cultural, in their effects as in their content, images appear throughout these essays as ideological vectors and as creators of interculturality. Immediately visible but undeniably complex, if we consider the apparatus that each one puts into place, whatever its nature and function may be, images present themselves on the one hand as effective tools for democratizing knowledge, and on the other, as scholarly objects that demand an expert's knowledge, the practitioner's perspective, the mediator's encouragement. Two traditions coexist and cross paths in this history (story?) of a meeting with and around the image: a critical approach, often favorable to the image/text connection that ...