Since March 2013, Cartooning for Peace offers to French schools a travelling educational kit about Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The goal: to provide teachers and students an education kit (the exhibition and a teaching file for students) giving tools to study and analyze the role of press cartoons and Freedom of Speech at school.
“What is press cartoon? “, “Freedom of Expression”,”Can we laugh at everything?,”Cartoons and religion”,”censorship”, “Internet”, “racism”, ” Middle East”, “Children in Conflict”, “Women’s Rights” and “Environment”: these 11 topics are displayed on kakemonos in simply and efficient way.
The exhibition has been seen and studied by more than 25,000 students since March 2013, and has also resulted in several major educational projects, such as the Cartooning for Peace tour in the Academy of Nancy (January to March 2015).
Between January and March 2015, “Cartoons for Peace” was presented to the Regional Center of Pedagogical Documentation (CRDP) of Nancy : more than 800 students visited the exhibition. During the week of the press and media at school, several highlights.
In February 11, 2015, the exhibition “Cartoons for Peace” was presented to the College Paul Bert in Malakoff (near from Paris). For this occasion, Plantu gave a workshop on press cartoons and freedom of expression. The Minister of Education, Ms. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, and Minister of Culture, Ms. Fleur Pellerin, attended the workshop and present the main lines of their commune politics in favor of artistic, cultural and Media education.