- The body of a textbook consisting of texts and materials is mainly used for learning and it is the main part of a textbook. Among them, illustrations is all sorts of figures which is inserted in a textbook, it gives learners supplementary material for study so that they can be interested in study having understanding about the subject. So, it could be a basic work for making a good textbook to look into characteristics and problems of illustrations by analyzing it.
- This study has started with considerations for the weight of illustrations as a part of a world history textbook. First, a multilateral analysis was performed for the illustrations in textbooks from the 1st to the 7th curriculum to catch hold of tendency and suitability. After that, illustrations in the 7th world history book being used in high schools in Korea were compared with them in a world history book of France. By doing this work, complementary measures for learning world history effectively would be offered to modify the present textbooks.
- The first thing, the results from the statistical analysis of illustrations in all textbooks from the 1st to the 7th curriculum are following as :
- The more the edition of textbook goes by, the more the number of illustrations is. thus, fields, sorts and regions being dealt were various. However the 7th textbook inclines to a specific part, so this point needs to be improved for the textbook in the future.
- In the second place, as the results from the analysis of "the Renaissance" in all textbooks from the 1st to the 7th curriculum, there were many changes when converting into the 7th curriculum. there are especially research works related with illustrations, so they can do a role as independent materials. however, the research works were not used properly for the way how to insert it in a book and applications of it.






