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Robert Lee Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA Hansen Endowed Chair, The University of Northern Former Professor of English at Nihon University, Colorado, USA Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, previously long taught Professor Dennis McInerney at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Professor Jiro Takai Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Co- Secretary General of the Asian Association for Social Director of the Assessment Research Centre Psychology & Professor of Social Psychology Professor Dexter Da Silva The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Graduate School of Education and Human Professor of Educational Psychology, Keisen University, SAR Tokyo, Japan Development, Nagoya University, Japan Professor Brian Daizen Victoria Professor Svetlana Ter Minasova Professor Georges Depeyrot Professor of English President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Professor and Director of Research & Member of the Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University Board of Trustees French National Center for Scientific Research Professor Yozo Yokota (CNRS) & L’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Professor Michiko Nakano Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan Professor of English & Director of the Distance Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Johannes Moenius Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Professor Kensaku Yoshida William R. and S. Sue Johnson Endowed Chair of Professor of English & Director of the Center for the Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Planning Professor Thomas Brian Mooney Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education, The University of Redlands School of Business, USA Professor of Philosophy Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Head of School of Creative Arts and Humanities Professor of Philosophy and Head of School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Australia The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2020 Official Conference Proceedings ISSN: 2436-0503 © The International Academic Forum 2020 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Sakae 1-16-26-201 Naka Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Japan 460-0008 ww.iafor.org Table of Contents A Study on the Aesthetics of Illustrations in Third and Fourth Graders’ Chinese Textbooks Ya-Ting Lee Yu-Ting Wang Ying-Ting Liu Jo-Chen Chung pp. 1 - 7 Course Redesign: A Case of Critical Spiral Pedagogy Fredah Mainah Mariam Konaté pp. 9 - 24 Telling Our Own Stories: A Phenomenological Study ofSub-Saharan African Immigrants Mariam Konaté Fredah Mainah pp. 25 - 42 Religious Prosperity Calling Cultural Progress: Architectural Discourses on Korean Catholic Churches (1979–94) Youngji Kang pp. 43 - 59 Bapsi Sidhwa’s Water: A Novel: The Widows in Subjugation, Revolt, and Jouissance Eiko Ohira pp. 61 - 69 Difference as the Source of Polarization among Right-Wing Populist Parties Simona Fraštíková pp. 71 - 85 Composition of the Political Caricature in the Journal “Neue Freie Zeitung” as a Result of Difference-Thinking Ján Demčišák pp. 87 - 96 Philippine Basketball, Economy and Politics: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Hit the Filipinos’ Most Beloved Sport Anthony Andrew G. Divinagracia pp. 97 – 114 Emperor Kangxi‘s Poetry on Taiwan Sherman Han pp. 115 - 122 Wide (Conscious) Heart - Idioms in Montenegrin and Japanese Language Kristina Gvozdenović Miomir Abović pp. 123 - 135 E-Poetry, Performance, and Identity: Perspectives from Latinx Canadian Poets Maria Figueredo pp. 137 - 152 Analyzing the Source of Wealth of Mr. Suckling and Mrs. Elton in Jane Austen’s Emma Akiko Takei pp. 153 - 161 From Gender Binary to Diversity: The Image of the Prophet in Tony Kushner's Angels in America as a Stimulus to Discuss Gender Issues in Catholic Theology Agnieszka Laddach pp. 163 - 174 A Different Kind of Beauty: Wabi and Kintsugi Alexandre Avdulov pp. 175 - 179 The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2020 Official Conference Proceedings A Study on the Aesthetics of Illustrations in Third and Fourth Graders’ Chinese Textbooks Ya-Ting Lee, National Pingtung University, Taiwan Yu-Ting Wang, National Pingtung University, Taiwan Ying-Ting Liu, National Pingtung University, Taiwan Jo-Chen Chung, National Pingtung University, Taiwan The Kyoto Conference On Arts, Media & Culture 2020 Official Conference Proceedings Abstract Textbooks are one of the most important tools for learning. Illustrations in a textbook can have critical influence on students’ understanding of the text and their interest in learning. However, studies on illustrations in a textbook in Taiwan are scarce. On this account, this study developed a list of aesthetic principles to examine illustrations. It aimed to explore and compare the types of representation of these illustrations and their corresponding principles of aesthetics in versions A and B of third and fourth graders’ Chinese textbooks. Keywords: Aesthetic Principles, Aesthetics of Illustrations in Chinese Textbooks, Content Analysis of Textbooks iafor The International Academic Forum www.iafor.org ISSN: 2436-0503 1 The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2020 Official Conference Proceedings Introduction Textbooks are one of the most important tools for learning. Illustrations in a textbook can have critical influence on students’ understanding of the text and their interest in learning. However, studies on illustrations in a textbook in Taiwan are scarce. Only recently has Taiwan begun to pay close attention to the aesthetics of the design of textbooks. The emergence of “Aesthetic Cell: Recreation of Textbooks Program” in 2014 led us to believe that “a textbook is like a museum,” with students inspired to develop a sense of aesthetics, thus becoming individuals who know how to think freely and embrace a greater perspective of space (The News Lens, 2018). On this account, this study developed a list of aesthetic principles to examine illustrations. It aimed to explore and compare the types of representation of these illustrations and their corresponding principles of aesthetics in versions A and B of third and fourth graders’ Chinese textbooks.