Itinerary of a Shared Experience: Debates around Educational Discourses in the Civil-Military Dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the Second Half of the 20th Century (2017-2025)

Abstract

The article is a review of the work of a group composed of voluntary teachers and researchers from different countries in the Ibero-American region, continuing since the 2018 CIHELA conference, on "Authoritarianism and Education in 20th-Century Ibero-America." Its objective is to analyze how dictatorships and authoritarianism have impacted in topics such as the lives of teachers, students, and school communities, curriculum proposals, classroom practices, and text production. For this, archival works are recovered and oral testimonies, "minor" documents, and material culture are retrieved. At the same time, the aim is to go beyond the denunciations and recover figures and productions that were presented as acts of resistance. In recent decades, there has been an intensification of studies on these situations and on the processes of transition and establishment of democracies. This allowed us to understand each experience as an opportunity to ask questions and find answers, and to establish dialogues between the history of education and other disciplines in the field of social sciences, with an emphasis on the pedagogy of memory and the memory policies adopted in different countries.