안느-마르고 램스타인과 마티아스 아르귀의 『시작 다음』을 활용한 그림책 협동제작의 교육적 의미

Abstract

“Before After” is a wordless picture book by Anne-Margot Ramstein and Matthias Aregui. Each pair of pages illustrates a distinct aspect of time’s flow, the book’s central theme, and together form a loose whole. Here, I describe a collaborative picture book production course and examine its educational significance. Inspired by Before After’s theme and format, each student produced two or four pages of images based on personal thoughts, sensations, and experiences, and these images were gathered into one picture book. I summarize the course structure—storyboard preparation, sketching, coloring, e-book production, and essay writing—and analyze students’ course experiences. I report five points of educational significance. First, students realized that while artistic expression begins with the self, it is motivated by active desire to share with others. Second, students learned to visually express the temporally and spatially changing nature of the self. Third, by working with a common medium, students learned to experiment with the medium and share their artistic techniques with each other. Fourth, students felt a sense of accomplishment by collaboratively achieving a goal difficult for any individual to achieve. Finally, by expressing their temporal and spatial experiences in image, students achieved better self-understanding as well as empathy and mutual understanding.