Abstract
Heritage and museums have constituted two fundamental axes of heritage education research in recent decades. This can be defined as the pedagogical process in which people can learn about heritage assets in formal or informal learning contexts. Museums, as centres of reference in informal education, are in constant and fluid contact with schools and produce different and varied didactic materials related to heritage. This paper provides results concerning the development and shaping of the knowledge domain known as heritage education between 2000 and 2019 on the Web of Science (WoS). To this end, different techniques and tools have been used: R-package Bibliometrix and VOSviewer. This analysis has identified five clusters with the topics underpinning heritage education as a specific field of knowledge. Our inquiry has highlighted the fact that there has been an increase in production regarding research topics associated with heritage education and museums in this period, particularly between 2015 and 2019. The inclusion of ESCI journals has led to a greater visibility of WoS-indexed academic production in some countries. Finally, the concepts “heritage”, “museum” and “education” are the axes around which the research paradigms related to heritage education research seem to have been developed.
Highlights
IntroductionA recent monograph directed by Olaia Fontal and Álex Ibáñez in Revista de Educación demonstrates the strength of this line of research
The above results enable us to understand the conceptual, intellectual and social structure of the “heritage education” and “museum” knowledge domain on the basis of dissemination data for journals indexed on the Web of Science
First of all, that research in heritage education has moved beyond a phase characterised by its scarce visibility on the Web of Science (WoS) compared with other areas of knowledge such as mathematics or science education
Summary
A recent monograph directed by Olaia Fontal and Álex Ibáñez in Revista de Educación demonstrates the strength of this line of research It brings together, among other issues, a study on the relationship between heritage, citizenship and the construction of identity [18] and research in which a rigorous bibliometric study of scientific production regarding heritage education was carried out [19]. Among other issues, a study on the relationship between heritage, citizenship and the construction of identity [18] and research in which a rigorous bibliometric study of scientific production regarding heritage education was carried out [19] It can be observed how there are ever more frequent and richer experiments and research being carried out concerning the use of objects and material remains from the past. A decade ago, the journal Teaching History published a paper which made a positive evaluation of the articles
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