Meetings for Engaged Citizenship

Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial, participated on January 11, 2018 in the "Meetings for an Engaged Citizenship" organized by the Fonds du 11 janvier, hosted by the Fondation de France. The round table was moderated by Serge Barbet, director of the Centre for Media and Information Education (CLEMI).

The theme of these meetings was media education and critical thinking, as well as the deconstruction of hate speech and conspiracy theories. Emmanuelle Daviet, journalist, head of the Society and #InterClass department at France Inter, and Souâd Belhaddad, journalist and writer, also participated in these meetings.

Since 2015, racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic insults and acts have continued to increase, with increasing violence. At the same time, it is in middle and high schools that "I am not Charlie" have also been heard, which have sounded the alarm on the need to equip teachers to encourage critical thinking. Initiatives are being set up to reflect on the question: how to react in classrooms, on the net, in everyday life, to decipher information and images? Behind this question, it is actually a matter of rethinking how to support young people so that they become informed and responsible citizens.

Watch the video of the meetings again: