What students know about the last dictatorship? Strengths and weaknesses of citizenship education in secondary schools History lessons in La Plata city

Abstract

This work is about how secondary school students know and understand the matter of the last dictatorship in Argentina, a main subject in regard to their education as democratic citizens. For this purpose, quantitative data resulting from a completed research on the Mercosur countries are used and compared with those obtained through the narratives of 5th year students of a qualitative project still ongoing and focused on the city of La Plata (capital of Buenos Aires province).