«I have faith in Chile and its future»: memory works on emblematic dates of Chile's difficult past in primary school

This paper analyses the memory work carried out by the school on emblematic dates of the traumatic past in Chile. A qualitative research was carried out in a school named after an emblematic character of the national past. It describes the work of memory carried out by school actors on an emblematic date of the difficult past, modifying its expression through new commemoration practices from a traumatic and painful character to a creative and forward-looking one. The article provides evidence on the transmission of memories in school events as a space for the transmission of conflictive pasts in the countries of the Southern Cone.Fil: Southwell, Myriam. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.Fil: Palma Flore, Evelyn. University of Chile. Department of Psychology.Fil: Vilches, Matías. University of Chile.Fil: Higuera Rubio, Diego. National Pedagogical University of Colombia