Abstract
Facing sociohistorical trauma, societies around the world have embraced the frameworks that emerged from German didactics in the 1970s as ways of dealing with a past (in that particular case, the Shoah) in need of working through (Laville, 2004). As different nations attempted to (re)build a citizenry in ways that would prevent the past from repeating itself, history and civics lessons came to the forefront. However, as will become evident through the analysis of the Argentine case, even the most “progressive” attempts and the best of intentions have embedded in them dangers in need of exploration.
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Friedrich, D.S. (2014). The Mobilization of Historical Consciousness in the Narratives about the Last Argentine Dictatorship. In: Williams, J.H. (eds) (Re)Constructing Memory. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1_2
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