COULD HISTORY TEACHING CONTRIBUTE TO DEVELOP A CULTURE  OF COOPERATION IN LATIN AMERICA  IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBALIZED WORLD?

A comparative study of history teaching in Argentina and Brazil.


In the last 15 years I have been working extensively on history education and national identity in Latin America. In 2001 I received the Guggenheim Fellowship (Latin American) for a project on this specific area of study. In this study I examined the relation between the teaching and learning of history and the formation of national identity. My most recent publication is a result of this Project (Documentos de identidad. La construcción de la memoria histórica en un mundo global (2007, Buenos Aires: Paidós). (Identity documents. The construction of historical memory in a globalized world. London: Routledge, sumitted; also portuguese translation, in press, Portoalegre, Artes Medicas). In this book, I analyze and compare the debates on the teaching of history in different countries, paying special attention to Latin America, specially in chapter 4, where I present interviews with students of different ages about historic-patriotic rituals and celebrations. My previous book (Enseñanza de la historia y memoria colectiva, 2006) has also been published on Argentina and Brazil (see vita), where I have been teaching and doing research.
This proposal is based on a continuation and expansion of the work of my book, working specifically on a comparison between the Argentinean and the Brazilian cases. I think both DRCLAS and HGSE offer excellent conditions and prior and specific research specific on this topic.