Last updated on 12 May 2026
Useful and interesting pedagogical file proposed by Clemi a few days before the first and second rounds of the French presidential election. Laurent Garreau of Clemi National has developed a complete file ready to be used in the classroom to introduce your students to the images that have flourished everywhere in recent days.
There is a lot of talk about media and information literacy. Here is a concrete example through the theme of the political image and more specifically the electoral poster.
The file to download proposed by the Clemi is a PDF that will allow you to prepare a simple pedagogical sequence with many illustrations and links to additional online resources. The dossier opens with a brief historical overview of the political and electoral poster throughout history.
The most interesting part of the file, however, is the detailed analysis of the posters of the 11 candidates in the 2017 presidential election. and in particular their source of inspiration (May 68, posters and advertising codes, arts deco…
Interesting also the comparison made by Laurent Garreau of the posters of the previous election of 2012 compared to those of 2017 for the candidates present in both elections. A comparative study that provides information on the evolution of each candidate’s programmes and postures.
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