A Comparative Analysis on External Sides of Illustrations in the 7th National Curriculum and Revised 2007 National Curriculum's ¡®Intelligent Life¡¯ Textbooks

Abstract

The objects of the research are the illustrations in the first and second grade's Intelligent Life textbooks of the 7th National Curriculum and Revised 2007 National Curriculum. In this study, a research focus is the external side (the size, type and shape) of the illustration. Then the frequency of each corresponding categories is checked on the analysis frame to find percentage and that is analyzed according to the National Curriculum. The results are as follows. First, the Revised 2007 National Curriculum has much more convenient composition in many aspects compared to the 7th National Curriculum, such as paper quality, picture clarity, unit and time schedule display, and attached cards and so on. Second, the number of entire pages, units and illustrations has increased in the Revised 2007 National Curriculum while the school hours have decreased. Third, Overall, each one of the compared illustration's size is somewhat increased or decreased but there is no clear difference. Forth, the number of the photographs has increased a bit more, also the proportion of children-friendly cartoons has increased.