Abstract

ACEVEDO TARAZONA, Álvaro  and  SAMACA ALONSO, Gabriel. Education policies for teaching Colombian history (1948-1990): From curricula for subjects to Social Sciences involvement. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2012, n.62, pp.219-242. ISSN 0120-3916.

This paper focuses on addressing educational policies related to invention of a historical memory that Colombian state has developed and tried to implement during the second half of the 20th century. The main approach in these pages is that central state was really interested to influence a definition of shared memory from a deeper national perspective, regardless of educational level changes undertaken in this study period. So nation was the focus of the shared memory project by Ministry of Education, so during transition from teaching separate subjects to integrated project in the mid-eighties was kept. The purpose was to maintain distinctive features of a cultural nationalism linked to a political and citizenship education legitimizing the current democratic regime and a capitalist system as a desirable goal of any society. This paper is based primarily on a study of official documents issued by MEN in order to analyze the educational standards focused on textbook production during the second half of the 20th century.

Keywords : Educational policies; teaching history; national memory; Social Sciences.

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