Effects of pictures in textbooks on students' creativity article · June 015 citations reads 22,525 authors

CONCLUSION
This study attempted to define importance of textbooks and the impact of their pictures 
on student creativity. Textbooks are not the sole instrument for education and learning; they had 
important presences in achieving the learning goals. Textbooks are the foundation of school 
instruction and the main source of information for students and lecturers. Textbooks must be 
authentic and exciting to be able to identify interested students. If textbooks do not contain these 
issues, neither teachers nor students have enough strength and energy to work with these 
textbooks. Evidently, images can influence the quality of the book. Frequently the unique and 
creative interpretation of characters and setting in pictures can come up students very well. 
Therefore, illustrations and words together are effective factor to foster impression on to the 
children and students. Nevertheless, students need to have the motivation to undergo the learning 
process. Motivation is deemed as a base of creative performance so in the classroom the source 
of extrinsic motivation comes typically from the teachers and instructional materials. This 
indicates students need to have experienced teachers and specially materials in this course 
textbook. Accordingly, it is recommended that in process of producing textbooks, designer and 
illustrators should be more careful about the effect of images on student’s motivation and 
creativity. 

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