중학교「사회 1」교과서 삽화의 기능 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the functional attributes as well as the functions of illustration in the Textbook of「 Society I」in the Middle School. To do so, textbooks from 3 random publishers were selected and a total of 338 illustrations in chapters VII-VIII were analyzed. Now, to summarize the research results and the implications. First of all, illustrations mainly focus on the functions ‘representation’, and ‘explication’. Depending on the function, the type of the illustration diverts; to be more specific, ‘motivation’ is shown by drawings, ‘representation’ by pictures and drawings, ‘organization’ by diagrams, and ‘retention’ by drawings. Second, the relevance between the in-book illustrations and the learning contents are 92.3%, which is quite high, however, as the illustrations are used under the assumption that they are related with the learning material, the 26 illustrations that are marked as ‘average’ need to be modified·supplemented with content that have higher relevance with the material. Third, as only 71.3% of the illustrations have caption/label, the efficiency of illustrations may deteriorate. In future creation of in-book illustrations,captions and provision of basic information through directions are necessary. Fourth, although 93.0% of the illustrations were placed appropriately, there were cases where the efficiency of learning was reduced due to the abnormal order sequence between the learning material, illustration, and captions. We need to modify the placement of illustrations to clear these problems. Adding on, 80.9% of the illustrations had adequate size,however, the remaining 19.1% had improper size or shape which also needs modification. These results show that the textbooks were improved compared to the 7th Social-Studies textbook, however, as textbooks are required, not optional, as teaching material in school education, illustrations that have these problems shouldn’t be left as minimized, but rather reduced to “zero” in order to strengthen the functionalities of illustrations and increase the efficiency of learning.