Manuales escolares de Ciencias Sociales y proyecto de memoria nacional a principios de la década del noventa del siglo XX: Colombia una República democrática y en vías de desarrollo

Abstract

The article aims to show how through the Social Science textbook for eighth grade of basic secondary education is intended to socialize young people into the political and economic project condensate in the 1991 Constitution. The private publishing houses attended the nineteenth century history, to expose the process of building a democratic republic and the country’s integration into the global economy. The sources used in the study were eighth-grade textbooks for major publishing companies and interviews with some of the authors of the texts studied and resumes of them. Methodologically, we opted for a qualitative analysis to determine the meaning of historical representations addressed to the school. Through it was unclear how the nation was recreated from the school history, underpinning the idea of a nation essentially democratic, modern and capitalist. 

Keywords: Memory national, Textbook, Democracy, Development.