Kalya was born in 2007. “The year when the first smartphone appeared”, underlines the teenager, who, like most of her peers, uses her phone intensively, instinctively, perfectly naturally. On a family visit to the Cité des Télécoms in Pleumeur-Bodou (Côtes-d’Armor), the affable young girl cannot help teasing her grandmother, Jeanine, 70: “In terms of technologies, […]
Tag: youth
These young people who flash on disposable cameras
This is an unexpected trend to say the least. The disposable camera is making a comeback on the market and appealing to generations who have grown up with digital. “It is a small object, which can be easily transported and which one does not need to monitor all the time because it does not have […]
Bac 2022: democracy, work, climate… What philosophy says to young people
► Democracy, how to get involved? Roger-Pol Right Philosopher (1) “We feel in many young people today a real and deep desire for solidarity, the conviction that joint action is necessary in the face of the challenges of the planet and the frenzied individualism of a part of society. But these feelings are accompanied by […]
Wood trades, from the professional high school to the Villa Medici
Of the 280 young people, many had never been abroad before. Some had never even crossed the borders of New Aquitaine before… Here they are, however, rather at ease, dazzled and flattered by the almost princely welcome reserved for them, for a week, in the Renaissance setting of the Villa Médicis, where the greatest artists […]
The enthusiasm of young people for F1
The trend may seem anachronistic. While young people say they are concerned about the future of the planet, many are passionate about a sport that does not have a very ecological image: Formula 1. , on site, tickets are selling like hot cakes. How did this sport, once mainly popular with mechanical enthusiasts, become fashionable […]
Cannabis, cocaine or ecstasy: how to help our teenagers protect themselves from drugs
Léa smoked her first joint in the summer of 2020, while on vacation in Brittany with her grandmother. She was then 15 years old. “I had already been offered it at parties and I had always said no. There, I wanted to try, so, with my childhood friend, we went to buy some on the […]
France seen by a head of school: “Among our young people, the desire to act is natural”
The Cross the Weekly : What makes you get up in the morning ? Sandrine Widemann: The desire to help our young people grow, in every sense of the word. Here, we transmit knowledge, of course, but also life skills, which involve human, social and spiritual values. I think of justice, solidarity, effort, joy… It’s […]
“Oblik”, a journalistic UFO that tells us everything about young people
What if the statistics weren’t so boring after all? It is the bet that Economic Alternatives by publishing oblik, a semi-annual comic magazine. This seventh issue has 144 pages on the following question: what future for the new generation? In 35 major issues and statistical studies, this graphic info album manages to draw the outlines […]
Les dicos d’or: the French language in decline among young people
This Thursday, May 19, the 3rd edition of the campus dicos d’or is held, a vocabulary competition for French-speaking middle school and high school students. Organized by the magazine Read and the Voltaire Foundation, and supported by the general delegation for the French language and the languages of France, it highlights the importance of vocabulary […]
Laurent Champaney: “We need young people to fight the abuses of the industry from the inside”
La Croix: During a graduation ceremony, students from AgroParisTech called on young people to “desert” the industry. Does this surprise you? Laurent Champaney: Not at all. This is a trend that we have been observing for about five years in our engineering and business schools or in political studies institutes. Many of our students have […]