Theatre as a teaching resource to work on socio-environmental problems in primary education

Abstract

The theatre as a didactic resource in the educational field has a great pedagogical value (Cutillas-Sánchez, 2006). Unlike in other European and Latin American countries, in Spain it has not had a great protagonist (Baldwin, 2014; De Diego, 2004). However, in recent years in Spain there are various experiences that are taking place in educational classrooms where the theatre is used as a teaching and learning tool, highlighting its usefulness to promote the teaching-learning processes. Therefore, and based on the research conducted, we can affirm that the benefits of this resource at the educational level are related to educational implications referring to both competencies and skills, as well as to the teaching-learning processes (table 1).