El hombre que pudo reinar en la clase de Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo

Abstract

Colonial imperialism tends to appear in Spanish Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) very subordinated to other historical processes, without paying enough attention to it as an autonomous phenomenon. The subject of 1st year of Spanish upper secondary education (Baccalaureate) Contemporary World History is obliged to provide a broader and more monographic approach that allows a critical analysis of concepts such as “domination” or “racism”, usually condemned in ESO classrooms without further justification. To achieve our objective, we propose a didactic proposal centered on viewing a series of fragments from The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975), which will be preceded by the teacher’s explanations and followed by a series of activities designed to encourage debate and responsible skepticism.