The CSA posted on Monday, November 2 educational resources on media and information education (EMI), for teachers and their students, concretely illustrating its desire to step up its actions in this area. .
Designed in partnership with the Académie de Créteil, these resources include educational scenarios offered to secondary school teachers on high-profile themes such as equality between women and men, the fight against discrimination and freedom of expression. , explains the CSA on its site.
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The Superior Audiovisual Council accompanied these contents with “
easy and free access to video extracts from the INA archives
”, to illustrate the courses, and documents “
easily mobilized in class, to carry out activities. practices
”.
This involves, for example, identifying sexist representations in television advertisements or evaluating the diversity in a particular program.
This initiative is a concrete illustration of the CSA's desire to strengthen its activity in media education, as the regulator has committed to by recently signing agreements with the National Education and the Academy of Créteil.
"
We can see with all the debates surrounding social networks (that this is an) important question
," Roch-Olivier Maistre, the president of the CSA, said to AFP, recalling that the institution had already been developing for several years a series of actions “
both with high school and college students and also teachers
”, notably through the partnership already established with the Académie de Créteil or in close collaboration with Clemi, a media education network.
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And the themes explored in this educational kit echo the fundamental missions of the CSA, which are at the same time major concerns for many students, such as diversity and the fight against discrimination, or gender equality, notes. he.
Freedom of expression, for its part, is "
a cardinal value at the heart of our news, it is for us a central element, because we are also the guarantors of this freedom
", he argued.
This educational kit was published in the middle of a day of tribute in schools to Samuel Paty, this teacher brutally murdered on October 16 for having shown in class caricatures of Muhammad.
