Abstract
This study considers progress in children’s drawing and methods of teaching thereof. Based upon the ‘dinner scene’, which surveyed continuously the 6 years of elementary school in issues 35 and 36 of the Journal of Art Education, the study describes how children’s expression of space in the pictures progressed to become like that in adult pictures, whilst the children repeated, for example, eye-face blending viewed from various perspectives. To grasp the current situation, this study sent survey requests to all 203 elementary schools in Sapporo regarding textbook materials that had been used that year, and got results from 48 of the schools, approximately 24%. The survey results enabled understanding of the current state of views on teaching and artwork principles and objective statements regarding the state of teaching ‘children’s perspective’ based upon the progression of children’s drawing and new views regarding academic ability.
