Good practices in heritage education. Analysis of connections between emotions, territory and citizenship

It starts from a perspective of heritage education of an interdisciplinary, symbolic-identity, socio-critical, constructivist and systemic nature. The objective of the research is to detect the good practices that are developed in the educational centers to work the heritage in connection with the heritage centers. Instruments for obtaining information (interviews and registration sheets) and category tables are designed for the analysis of the data obtained. With these instruments, the exhibitions and observations of educational experiences in heritage centers of different types (historical, artistic, ethnological, scientific and nature) of the countries participating in the research (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, Chile and United States) are analyzed. From the information obtained in this process, basic criteria of good practice are determined. These allow the design of educational proposals, their experimentation and evaluation in which educational interventions are interconnected in educational and heritage centers. The results show the key aspects to develop proposals for good practices in heritage education, based on the connections between identity shaping, emotional education and territorial intelligence, to advocate the formation of a participatory, critical and reflective citizenship in the student of compulsory secondary education.