Between repression and resistance: policies and pedagogy in the ICUF institutions during the last civic-military dictatorship (1976 - 1983)

On March 24, 1976, the National Reorganization Process began in the Argentine Republic, in a scenario of high political conflict. A Military Junta, following a coup d'état, assumes the government of the country, and will try to monitor and intervene in the behavior of people, institutions and the educational system. It is the purpose to analyze, in this context, the functioning of some pedagogical activities developed in cultural and recreational institutions of the ICUF, which were constituted as spaces of containment and resistance, with projects that offered ‘another’ education, outside the ‘official’ school. A review of some of these experiences is proposed, recovering period documentation and testimonies of participants taking into account the discontinuities that imposed threats, bans, closures, raids, exiles, arrests, disappearances and destruction of archives. This aims to make a contribution that, from the methodological perspective of recent history and oral history, redefines these pedagogical proposals and their impact on the field of the history of education.

Keywords:
dictatorship; memory; testimonies; documents