From History Classes to Television: Argentine Educational Policies Around the Falklands Issue 30 Years After the WarABSTRACT
The article analyzes the way in which the Falklands War is represented in an official audiovisual product aimed at children´s audiences, within the framework of an incipient and progressive interest of the national authorities to put the review of the “Falklands Issue” on the Argentine political agenda. We inquire about the representations of war and opponents, reflecting on the elements presented to think about the question and to try and understand whether this material encompasses the romantic function that history traditionally played as a school discipline, in order to consider its limits and possibilities. Our study is based on historiographic comparison and the analysis of the audiovisual discourse. From this question, we concluded that, on one hand, the State has been able, using the language of cartoons, to reestablish a significant role for the official discourse regarding historical transmission. On the other hand, as an official educational proposal, it constitutes a cultural offer indebted to certain concepts that make the formation of citizens and the promotion of critical thinking, through the teaching of how to think historically, a form of relation to the past within an educational framework.
Zamba; history teaching; children’s audiences; Falklands war; national identity