THE THEATER AS A TEACHING RESOURCE FOR LEARNING HISTORY IN UPPER BASIC STUDENTS

Abstract

The realization of this research has as objective; propose the use of the Theater, as a didactic resource to optimize the understanding of the history subject in upper basic students of the Fiscal Educational Unit December 6 of the San Miguel de Piquigua Community of the San Isidro-Sucre-Manabí parish. Determining the theoretical-methodological foundations of important authors and researchers such as Nicolás Román, Palacios, among others, which consolidate theater as a didactic tool, which provides students with the development of skills and abilities in their training, and which is capable of improving the teaching-learning process in different areas of knowledge. The research is descriptive, with a non-experimental design, and a mixed approach. Being the theoretical and empirical methods used for data collection such as; surveys, interviews and observation sheets, analyzing the results represented in tables and statistical figures. The theater, in this article is shown that it is not an obligatory tool but it is necessary. As a result, from the data obtained in the applied instruments, it is that the learning of history does have complexity when learning the text as such. Also, the various tools applied by teachers do not optimize said learning itself, making it clear that theater achieves it optimally with concrete expected results.