Promoting Significant Learnings in the University Teaching of History Through a Role Play

Abstract

This research aims to evaluate a role play implemented in a group of students of Basic Education Pedagogy, who had to play a prominent character in Chilean history. It is a qualitative exploratory research based on a case study and a transectional design. Participant observation of the classes where the experience was carried out was used, so the instruments consigned for data collection were the field notebook designed by the students, the researcher’s diary, the attendance sheet and the analytical rubric prepared to evaluate the activity. The results obtained show an improvement in student learning; however, several difficulties were also noted in the proposal, such as the poor familiarization of future teachers with the strategy and the great workload it implied for teachers and students.