The teaching of Social Sciences in Argentina and Colombia: cartographies of a “pre-future”

Abstract

The teaching of history and social sciences in Latin America has been closely linked to the corresponding research that emerged in the decade of the 1980s —being more detailed the production of this tendency than the one of the school institutions’ experience—. In the context of the historical particularities of Argentina and other Latin-American countries, the traumatic events and the Human Rights violations these countries experienced at the end of the last century, emerged a strong school of thought in the teaching of recent history, but in Colombia the memories of politics have emerged as pedagogical experiences cut off from school. In this sense, we think it’s necessary to think of some cartographies of a “pre-future” —an educational challenge— in order to enter into the potential present in which we live.