Imagen y Conocimiento Escolar: el Orbis Sensualium Pictus, primer manual ilustrado.

A quick glance at current pedagogic innovations cannot ignore the decisive role that has been granted to image -- in any of its means of support. This is evident in the renewal of publishing proposals pertinent to school texts, in which image has become a central and unavoidable means of organizing information. If the infrequent extension and generalization of this device would lead one to think of a radical novelty, then its analysis from a historical perspective allows it to be understood as part of a plurisecular process that dates back to the origins of Modernity with the appearance, in 1658, of the first illustrated "manual" -- the Orbis Sensualium Pictus of Comenio --, on which this paper will focus its analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]