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Game ‘For Peace in Europe': it's everyone concern!
A card game to develop critical thinking
Because developing critical thinking is central to the mission of the French education system, MIJE offers free access to an educational resource in line with its civic ambitions and activities focused on providing access to mobility experiences for school-age children.
‘For Peace in Europe’ is a card game consisting of numerous open-ended questions designed to encourage young people to express their views, knowledge and wishes on highly topical issues such as Europe, citizenship, peace, war and travel.
This mediation tool therefore fits humbly within the framework of the Common Core of Knowledge, Skills and Culture of the French eductional system, and more specifically within three of its areas:
- Personal and civic development – Area 3
- Representations of the world and human activity – Area 5
- Languages for thinking and communicating – Area 1
This mediation tool aims to be part of a collective practice of dialogue with oneself and others. It is particularly well suited, from an educational point of view, to the preparatory phase of a school trip with pupils, the aim of which is to discover places and new cultures that have direct or indirect links with key moments in our history.
A collective practice of dialogue with oneself and others
Receive the ‘smartphone’ and ‘cut-out’ versions by email to play for free.
- Raise your civic awareness by expressing your relationship with the world and, more specifically, with Europe and its upheavals (become part of an identity that is still evolving)
- Take an interest in what your peers think and the knowledge they have mastered (develop your open-mindedness)
- Evaluate the information available to you in order to think about current events (learn to learn by identifying what constitutes an opinion or knowledge)
- Confront their representations and knowledge in a spirit of benevolent dialogue (developing an iterative thought process based on complementary points of view)
- Develop a desire to learn in order to better understand the world (exercising discernment with regard to our own beliefs and those that others seek to impart to us)
How to play?
- The players stand in a circle.
- The host draws the first card and reads the two questions, turning to the participant on their left.
- That player chooses which question to answer in less than two minutes.
- Once the answer has been given, the other players are invited to respond with a few key words, before indicating by a show of hands whether or not they are satisfied with the answer.
- Then it is the next player’s turn to answer a new question (= new card).
- Once the discussion time is over, the facilitator summarises the main ideas that emerged during the discussion on a board.
Game variations
These games can also be played during coach or train journeys. Each young person is given a card at random. The leader (accompanying adult) then collects the cards one by one, asking each person to answer one of the questions on their card. This is an excellent fun activity to keep everyone occupied during long journeys!
If the leader is a Spanish teacher, for example, they can use the questions in the game and ask their students to translate them into Spanish and write their answers in Spanish. This exercise can be a good way to enrich their vocabulary and review the trip on the way back.
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