LAS COMPETENCIAS: EJE PARA LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO HISTÓRICO ESCOLAR. UN ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO EN AMÉRICA LATINA

The teaching of history in secondary education throughout Latin America underwent important changes during the nineties of the twentiethvcentury and the early twenty-first century. In a global process, with strong and specific local events, where there was a noticeable overlap of different disciplines (psychology, economy and history) in curricular approaches to the teaching of history in school based on the concept of competence. This led to a significant fracture of the traditions in history teaching, raising the possibility of establishing a new epistemology of historical knowledge in school. The text summarizes a comparative study focused on three countries: Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay.