TYPES OF COLOR IMAGES IN SEMANTIC DIDACTICS
Background. Attention to motivational and semantic aspects of learning in the modern Russian education dictates a need to disclose sense making potential of color images that teenagers use in the educational process. Pedagogical practice shows that students do not realize the value of subjective relation to the educational content, they have lost the habit to “work” with color images, and as a result - to “open” their inner world for themselves and others. The purpose of the work is to develop types of color images in the context of semantic didactics. Materials and methods. Implementation of the research tasks was achieved through the use of psychological research in the area of meaning and self-development. Methodological potential included the structural and semantic analysis, the use of which allowed to substantiate the choice of criteria in order to form a typology of color images, used by learners in the educational process, and the subsequent choice of technologies, initiating their meaning making. Results. The authors distinguished and characterized the types of color images as a way to “turn on” personal-significant relationship of students to the educational content in accordance with specifics of their perception, personal interpretation and presentation by students in the learning process. The researchers also clarified the criteria, in accordance with which they distinguished and characterized three groups of color images having a plurality of subgroups (unstable, borrowed, color images properties, etc.). Conclusions. The proposed typology of color images serves as a basis for the development of technologies initiating meaning making of students in the learning process that will allow teachers to implement soft managing through development of their semantic sphere.