«Tengo fe en Chile y su futuro»: trabajos de la memoria sobre fechas emblemáticas del pasado difícil de Chile en la escuela primaria

Abstract

This paper analyses the memory work carried out by the school onemblematic dates of the traumatic past in Chile. A qualitative research was carried out in aschool named after an emblematic character of the national past. It describes the work ofmemory carried out by school actors on an emblematic date of the difficult past, modifyingits expression through new commemoration practices from a traumatic and painful characterto a creative and forward-looking one. The article provides evidence on the transmission ofmemories in school events as a space for the transmission of conflictive pasts in the countriesof the Southern Cone.