Teaching what happened during the last military dictatorship in Argentina represents a number of challenges at secondary schools, but teaching those who are soon to become teachers demands a different degree of responsibility. Taking this issue into account, this paper attempts to work on a didactic unit designed to be carried out at universities or teaching training institutions that offer courses or studies related to the field of history. With that purpose in mind, we incorporate the use of audiovisual devices as powerful tools to deconstruct our reading of traumatic events of recent history in Argentina. Within this framework, the paper identifies the different memories from the time of the dictatorship that coexist during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, especially those that are hegemonic in each period. We attempt to show that these memories tell us more about the context in which they were produced and constructed rather than about what was actually remembered. This analysis will also account for the relationship between public policy and official memories. Understanding these processes of recollection of a traumatic recent past helps us deconstruct those issues that we take for granted and those we naturalize when we look at the present.
Fernando Gómez, N. (2017). Contributions to the teaching of recent history at universities: Revisiting the memories of Argentina’s dictatorship through audiovisual devices. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 4(2), pp. 99–113. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2017.47973