Resignifying History: The Social Sciences Class as a Place to Negotiate the Past

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Published: Oct 16, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53556/rec.v52i0.40
Keywords:
historical memory, teaching history, school textbooks

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Tatjana Louis
Universidad de los Andes

Abstract

In this article, I discuss the role of social science classes in Colombia within the processes of historical memory reconstrucion of the Colombian armed conflict. First, I argue how such classes are a space where negotiations of memory take place. Then, I discuss the particular challenges in the Colombian educational context. Finally, I analyze three textbooks with regard to the contents and strategies they offer for a multi-focal, controversial, and constructivist approach to the recent past.

 

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Vol. 52 (2018)
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Author Biography

Tatjana Louis, Universidad de los Andes

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Culture at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and directs the master's degree in Peace Construction at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds an MA  in Medieval History, German Philology and Romance Languages at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (1998), and a PhD in Medieval and Modern History from the Universität zu Köln, Germany (2013), where she completed her disseration "We are displaced without knowing it. The place of displacement in the Colombian memory." Her research interests focus on the construction of historical memory in conflict situations and Colombian school texts for the teaching of history.