School Texts and their Discursive Genre – Los Textos Escolares y su Género Discursivo

School textbooks are an essential tool for classroom work. Not only do they accompany the teaching-learning process, but they also reflect society, the policies implemented, and the dreams and projects of a nation and its citizens. This work covers one hundred and thirty years of Argentine history, from 1953, with the enactment of the National Constitution, to 1983, with the restoration of democracy. It relates each stage to the school textbooks in use at the time, written testimonies of an era, and analyses different books from the perspective of their discursive genres. To this end, it takes as its reference the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin, set out in his book The Aesthetics of Verbal Creation (1999), in which he develops the concepts of theme, structure and style. These are three aspects with innumerable combinations, since each school textbook is a product of society itself, with all its complexities.