Abstract
This paper clarifies the content and method of 'Reading-Oriented Appreciation,' referring to useful guidelines presented by Tachikawa Yasushi, Yoshino Noriyuki, Yoshikawa Noboru and N*CAP (Naito Takashi and others) on the basis of their practices and theories in the field of art appreciation learning. Considering the cultural condition of Japan as a non-Christian society (generally speaking), it picks up two related teaching materials from American magazines on "Art Education" from the point of view of cross-cultural exchange and international understanding through art. Both deal with the same subject, the "Adoration of the Magi" from Matthew 2:1-12 in the New Testament. The latter section partially modifies the seven-stage program proposed in the author's previous article and shows a diagram indicating how to visualize sequentially changing scenes of a text in pictorial space, which in the author's opinion is essential to reading-oriented appreciation. Forming a long-range learning plan to unify several teaching materials, including those suggested here, will be the next task. In terms of this task, the final chapter introduces Guy Hubbard's 'Strand' as an elaborated curriculum model.
