La representación del Gobierno de Alfredo Stroessner en los textos escolares de Historia utilizados en el Paraguay de 1989 hasta la actualidad

Abstract

The approach of the rhetoric of school texts allows to detect historiographical and thematic conceptions transmitted by formal education and installs descriptive pictures of certain events, characters and historical situations. In that sense, the problem posed by the present investigation is to determine what is the official version of the government of General Alfredo Stroessner in the school texts used in Paraguay from 1989 to the present. The present article has as starting point to recognize the historical vision of the long-lived government of Stroessner, from the discursive analysis of secondary school textbooks used since the fall of the Stronist regime to the present, relieving images and representations of the historical fact. The research aims to present a new approach to Strontism when analyzing school texts used in educational institutions in the country. The representations of the stronismo of times of the dictatorship, are being recontextualized in democracy, with the introduction of aspects that emphasize the negative presentation of the regime. However, there are still strong convictions, such as the idea of peace and progress, a representation that is decisive in shaping mental models of young students. Almost thirty years after the fall of the Stronist regime, the struggle for collective memory in the educational field generates an interesting discussion in the country, since it took many years for the teaching of the Stronist dictatorship to occupy a prominent place in the ministerial agenda and arrive at the schools a material that serves as a reference for addressing issues hitherto not addressed, such as methods of repression and torture of the regime, as well as the resistance mechanisms of the popular sectors.

Keywords

• memory
• history
• education
• schools