Inclusión de los orígenes del teatro obrero puertorriqueño a las programaciones académicas de enseñanza de español y de Teatro Escolar Superior en Puerto Rico

Resumen

The academic programs of teaching Spanish (Language and Literature) and Higher School Theater (Bachiller) in Puerto Rico have never included theatrical works and their authors, corresponding to the origin of Puerto Rico worker’s theater, of the late nineteenth century and early of the XX. The absence of this content has deprived many generations of the knowledge of the subject. Only the literary and theatrical concepts that have responded to the interests of the hegemonic classes have been taught. The themes, the historical and social contexts, and the theatrical techniques observed in the first pieces of the Puerto Rico labor theater, would contribute to the development of the academic objectives in both the Language and Literature programs, as well as the Theater programs, which propose curricular frameworks and the standards and expectations of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico. This research aims to prove the importance and relevance of including the study and analysis of the works and black authors of the origins of the Puerto Rican labor theater, in the aforementioned academic degrees and study some of the plays by the playwrights Eleuterio Derkes, Manuel Alonso Pizarro and José Ramos Brans, creators of the Puerto Rican labor theater. Presents the opinion on the subject of specialist educators of Spanish and Theater courses in the high schools of Puerto Rico.