History that was taught during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976 - 1983)

Abstract

The 24 of March of 1976, the members of the Army Force in Argentina, organized the sixth attack against the democratic government, at the same time that happen another dictatorships characteristic in the countries of the Latin American South (Paraguay, Brasil, Chile and Uruguay). In comparison, the last Argentine military dictatorship was most bloody of the region, left a balance of 30 thousand “disappear”, between which were hundreds of tie people to the educative area. 

It is known that the educative authorities of a certain government look for to transmit a story of the scholastic History that is agreed with its political projects. In this article we will analyze what facts and personages of History were introduced by the ministers of the Ministry of Education of the province of Buenos Aires during those years (1976 - 1983). Through study of the norm destined to modify the “scholastic calendar” that produced the ministers of education and their collaborators, we will identify what continuities and ruptures settled down with previous the Peronist period (1973-1976), what celebrations and activities included and the type of slight knowledge of the past that looked for to transmit.