Alzubair Mahdad

Adolescence is a basic stage of growth, rather it is the most important and most precise stage, because it is a bridge of passage from childhood to the adulthood stage in which the distinguishing features of masculinity or femininity are matured. The teenager is no longer a child, and has not yet become a man, but in himself, childhood and adulthood are mixed at the same time.

Today, as a result of the complexity of modern life and the massive development that has affected all its manifestations and aspects, and in the face of the multiple and growing responsibilities and duties of the family to meet the conditions and requirements of life, the school institution performs multiple tasks for caring for, containing, and educating the youth and meeting many of their psychological, emotional and mental needs that the family used to ensure. Children, male and female, have replaced the family's lap with the school's lap from their early years. Children have come to spend the first twenty years of their lives in the school space after most countries made schooling compulsory until the age of 18, and the school institution has gained special importance and occupied a fundamental position in the lives of teenagers.

Modern Image Culture:

The teenager is linked to his tangible material reality, and at the same time he pays special attention to the world of the image in his relations with this tangible world, because the dominance of the emotional side on his personality makes him in this stage open to symbols and everything that stimulates the imagination. Therefore, the language of audiovisual media remains the most suitable language for the teenager's psychology, as it provides him with information about various worlds in a way that is endearing to him, and keeps him in full contact with the world, and enriches his fantasies and stimulates his fantasies as well.

This attachment to images satisfies his inclination towards daydreams that stand out strongly and clearly in this period. These dreams revolve around the problems, aspirations and needs that worry him, so the teenager unconsciously resorts to satisfying them, and his mental growth enables him to do so as it allows him to escape far into the world of imagination, so he sees himself as a famous player or a hero who cannot be defeated.

The massive development witnessed by the communication and electronic media sector in the modern era contributed to strengthening this inclination, which prepared all the conditions for the image to dominate all means and sources of communication and information vessels that seek images for production, employment and development. Therefore, there is severe competition between communication bodies to employ images within communication messages and across various media as a satisfaction for various needs, not only through television, but through all electronic channels such as the computer and the Internet. These media enter homes where teenagers are present faster than they enter any other place, because teenagers are the most attached creatures to them and consumers of their programs, rather they develop blind trust in them and a readiness to accept what is shown in them, and receive from them many ideas and meanings that support each other, despite the risks that may arise from being engrossed in them, including weakening the degree of family communication, rather they may destroy family harmony and blow it up, and being engrossed in them is accompanied by an actual distance of the child from reality. The generation that has been subject since birth to the influence of multimedia is certainly different from our generation, which grew up in the lap of grandmother's stories and the family meeting around the radio or phonograph.

However, credit must be given to the multimedia media that allow students to live in a field of knowledge richer than everything that traditional education can offer them, which lagged behind the contemporary civilizational pace compared to the modern technology in media and communication that provides the child with useful information in an enjoyable and beautiful template. These media have a role in the learning that the student acquires, in a way that contributes to launching their creativity while ensuring freedom of opinion and expression for them, unlike the dismal school learning, until students today demand the adoption of summaries and lessons published on the Internet.

The emergence of these media left a clear impact on the position of the traditional lesson based on the teacher's lecture and the school textbook, as a decline in the use of newspapers and magazines was recorded in recent years. Thus, the teenager generally does not care about these vessels that are no longer interesting and stimulating to his interests, and are no longer a sole source of knowledge that he has begun to derive through media which made most educational processes take place outside the classroom in an atmosphere of freedom and in rational interactive ways, appropriate to his degree of mental growth and intelligence. He is no longer a child, rather he has become capable of performing many higher mental processes such as thinking and remembering based on understanding, deduction and other things. His special mental abilities such as mathematical ability which enables him to deal with numbers, and linguistic ability and accuracy in expression and mechanical and artistic ability, and the increase of his ability to pay attention and focus after it was limited in childhood, so the teenager began to demand proof of the facts of matters and does not accept them with blind and taken-for-granted acceptance.