Keywords : imagination


The Poetic Vision: An Inductive Approach

Fatima Sabah Mansoor; Wasan Abdulghani Al-Mukhtar

College Of Basic Education Research Journal, 2022, Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 1-21
DOI: 10.33899/berj.2022.176424

    This research aims to shed light on the concept of the poetic vision, being a cornerstone for any poetic work. It is, in fact, a complex concept in which all the components of the poetic text are interrelated to show the poet's vision and attitudes towards the world. The current research adopts the inductive method as far as the concept of the poetic vision is concerned to be the most appropriate method to comprehensively tackle this concept. According to Blake's theory, 'vision' refers to the sequence of levels, starting from sight, heart, cognition, and then imagination. This sequence includes all the meanings concerned with 'vision' and 'imagination' at the same time. Hence, the present research deals with the following axes:

The concept of vision in language and terminology and the difference between them.
 The concept of 'vision' in the philosophical thinking.
The concept of 'vision' in the Arabic literary critical thinking.
The concept of 'vision' in the Western literary-critical thinking
Elements of poetic vision which are divided based according to the scholars' agreement on displacement, imagination, image, and memory.

Mental Imagination for the Students of Basic Education College in Mosul University

Yaser Ahmed M

College Of Basic Education Research Journal, 2014, Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 55-78

The current research has aimed into identifying the level of mental imagination for the students of basic education college in Mosul University. As well as it has attempted to detect whether there are any differences in the level of mental imagination may be belonged into the two following variables: the gender (male, female), and specialization (scientific, humanitarian). The sample of this research has included (200) students from the basic education college as (109) for males and (91) for females. The researcher has used the test of mental imagination which had been prepared by (Al_Rawi, 2011), consisting of (70) items distributing as (6) aspects such as (visual imagination, auditory imagination, tactual imagination, olfactory imagination, gustatory imagination, and organic imagination). After verifying the validity by external validity and reliability by re test, making the final application for the test, and treating the data statistically by using (SPSS), so it has become clear that the students of basic education college have high percentage of mental imagination especially in the aspect of visual imagination then auditory one, olfactory, and the rest of aspects respectively. Moreover, the male students of basic education college are higher than female students in the mental imagination. While the variable of specialization, the results have showed that the scientific specializations have mental imagination higher than the humanitarian ones. In the light of the results, the researcher has presented several recommendations and suggestions In the light and the results the researcher presented a group of recommendations and suggestions ,such as didn’t depend on the verbal assimilation only in preparation the in structional curricums and their teaching methods specially for humanity specialist and can presents matersals that assist students to understand and imaginations building that assist to understand the instructional material.