Teaching social sciences in Latin America. Public policies and memory emergency

Enseñanza de las ciencias sociales en América Latina. Políticas públicas y emergencia de la memoria

This article of reflection identifies three key moments of educational policies on the teaching of social sciences and history in the continent: one linked to nationalist interests that became romantic and patriotic learning; another influenced by international currents that introduced citizen, cosmopolitan and environmentally sensitive concerns; and another, in progress, open to sensitive pasts and subject to dispute with different social actors and the State. Such division transcends the chronological boundaries and expresses different functions that have been assigned to this school knowledge, where at present, the controversies about the approach of recent stories, dictatorships or restricted democracies, show not only the controversial nature that it has but the complex dynamics that it keeps with the social and political realities that underlie the school.