Identity, memory and teaching history

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of History in the shaping of values, configurations and imaginaries during the childhood.  Political beliefs such as national and ethnic identities, are usually acquired in the school and defines largely the social behavior throughout lifetime. Thus, the powers striving to control the History Teaching in order of impose their own visions on citizens.  In the following paragraphs will be presented this phenomenon through the case of the Bicentenary Collection, a textbook series edited by the Venezuelan State since 2012.  The core idea is to show how some cultural values prompted by Bolivarian Revolution, such as their ethnics policies, especially the idea of Afrodescendencia (Afro American Heritage) as Venezuelan basic identity, have a strong presence likewise other are silenced in these textbooks.