PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION

124 Catechesis can and should use audio-visual aids so that it will be better able to achieve its goal. in this area there is a new method which is gaining ground more and more today and which in the educational field is called "programmed instruction." if ought not to be ignored.

In this matter, however, one must consider the difficulties which arise, either from the truths to be taught, or from the purpose of catechesis itself. Unprepared explanations are to be avoided. Rather, both for preparing the programs, as well as for expressing truths with the help of pictures, one should call upon the joint effort of experts in sacred theology, in catechetics, and in the art of audio-visual teaching.