Heritage Education and Research in Museums. Conceptual, Intellectual and Social Structure within a Knowledge Domain (2000–2019)

José Monteagudo-Fernández, Cosme J. Gómez-Carrasco and Álvaro Chaparro-Sainz
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José Monteagudo-Fernández: Department of Mathematics and Social Sciences Education, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Cosme J. Gómez-Carrasco: Department of Mathematics and Social Sciences Education, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Álvaro Chaparro-Sainz: Department of Education, University of Almeria, 04120 Almería, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 12, 1-21

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.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; heritage education; museum research; research review; science mapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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