Teaching recent history in countries that have experienced human rights violations: case studies from Chile
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Date
2011
Authors
Toledo, María Isabel
Magendzo, Abraham
Gazmuri, Renato
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Publisher
Faculty of Education, University of the Free State
Abstract
Incorporating recent history into the educational curricula of countries that have experienced human
rights violations combines the complexities of teaching history, teaching recent history, and human rights
education. Recent history makes a historical analysis of social reality and a historiographical analysis
of the immediate. It is located between history and present, between past and present, between witness
and historian, between memory and history. This situation creates problems in teaching. This article
investigates the teaching-learning process of the subunit ‘Military regime and transition to democracy’ in
secondary schools in Santiago, Chile, by means of both a quantitative methodological strategy to identify
six unique cases, and a qualitative strategy that is reported in this article. A variety of practices highlighted
four models: constructivism, development of meta-cognition, historical discourse, and moral discourse.
These models are described. Their diversity is due to the existence of different theoretical frameworks.
This unit has gaps in content and historiographical knowledge, and there is no coordination with human
rights education. The diversity of models is cause for concern because not all of them encourage students
to understand the present as a result of a historical process and how to operate within it.
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Keywords
Classroom, School ethnography, Recent history, Curriculum
Citation
Toledo, M. I., Magendzo, A., & Gazmuri, R. (2011). Teaching recent history in countries that have experienced human rights violations: case studies from Chile. Perspectives in Education, 29(2), 19-27.