«Tengo fe en Chile y su futuro»: trabajos de la memoria sobre fechas emblemáticas del pasado difícil de Chile en la escuela primaria.

This paper analyses the memory work carried out by the school on emblematic dates of the traumatic past in Chile. A qualitative research was carried out in a school named after an emblematic character of the national past. It describes the work of memory carried out by school actors on an emblematic date of the difficult past, modifying its expression through new commemoration practices from a traumatic and painful character to a creative and forward-looking one. The article provides evidence on the transmission of memories in school events as a space for the transmission of conflictive pasts in the countries of the Southern Cone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]