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An Analysis of the Illustrations on the Braille Science Textbooks for Primary School

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2008, 9(3), pp.457-475
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

김승현 1 JEONGHO CHA 1 김인환 1

1대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

The current primary science textbooks were brailled from the original printed textbook. The verbal expressions in textbooks can be easily brailled by the regulation of braille translation, but the illustrations such as pictures, photographies, diagrams, and graphs are not easily brailled, and generally omitted in braille textbooks. We investigated the ratio of braille translation of illustration by the kinds, by the role, and by the questioning. And we also investigated the tendency during the braille translation qualitatively. We found that the higher proportion of illustrations is brailled in the textbook for higher grade and that the 11.1% of illustrations in printed textbooks are brailled as a whole. 8.1% of the photographs and 3.0% of illustrations for attracting students' motivation in the printed textbooks are brailled. 39.2% of illustrations used in questioning in the textbooks are brailled. The result of qualitative analysis is that the braille translation was performed strictly in pursuit of the same formation with the printed textbook rather than the same contents.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.