Los profesores y la transmisión de la historia argentina reciente: entre el currículum y el contexto

The aim of this article is to analyze the incorporation of the recent past in Argentina – as much as teaching content as celebration – through the study of problems and questions that appear in schools and among teachers. Through interviews of middle school teachers from the city and state of Buenos Aires – the principal educational actors – we can identify that tensions relate to the history of the study of history, which limited, encouraged or resisted the nearby history of the complex and traumatic 1970s. In this way, we can observe that, with certain difficulties and resistances, the school is perceived as a space for the transmission and construction of memory