Abstract

In this study, I discuss the potential implementation of José Ricardo Morales’ relevant dramatic literature (scripts) as an additional pedagogical learning tool for teaching the topics of media manipulation and propaganda in Chilean secondary schools. Moreover, this process encourages students to critically examine and discuss specific past and present-day local conflicts. From a qualitative approach, I analyze several learning objectives from the Chilean national curriculum frameworks that best suit the aforementioned topics developed and problematized in Morales’ plays. As complementary, I discuss the previous results with eight randomly chosen secondary teachers and their students about using Morales’ plays to teach particular topics in Chilean history. The results reveal that incorporating two of Morales’ plays as a reading and writing activity can be helpful for secondary teachers to teach their students the topics of media manipulation and propaganda in authoritarian regimes from a contextualized perspective.