Progress in Heritage Education: Evolving Techniques and Methods

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a special issue titled "Progress in Heritage Education: Evolving Techniques and Methods".

For several decades, heritage education has been among the fastest-growing scientific disciplines within the social sciences, adopting a wide array of research procedures. Some of these procedures originate from quantitative methodologies, but an increasing number are derived from qualitative approaches, relying on strategies related to ethnographic methods, for instance, as well as the application of complex algorithms in collaboration with artificial intelligence.

Among the new thematic orientations that the discipline has been adopting are the application of cultural identity to educational actions related to heritage, the ability to form heritage communities, the application of heritage-making processes as educational and data gathering strategies, strengthening ties with heritage, the female perspective on heritage, or heritage education as an asset for economic development in rural areas. These lines of work are increasingly featured in publications selected by reference journals.

As heritage education has grown as a research topic in academia, there has also been a shift in how it is introduced in the classroom. It will be of great interest to explore how it is incorporated into teaching curricula, especially when done through educational innovation marked by transversality, transdiscipline, artificial intelligence, and disruptive or artistic methodologies.

This special issue on heritage education aims to gather original research papers and review articles that highlight the techniques and methods of studying heritage education that are currently under development, as well as specific examples of work where such procedures are applied, especially from multifocal, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches. The areas of research may include (among others) the following:

• Learning and knowledge technologies in heritage education.
• The role of heritage education in heritage sustainability.
• Sustainability in promoting heritage education from public administration and in the dissemination of cultural goods (accessibility, dissemination).
• Heritage education in the social, cultural, and family spheres.
• Gender, equality, and rural areas in heritage education.
• Cultural heritage in higher education.
• Heritage education and citizen participation.
• Educational innovation and heritage.
• Learning and evaluation of heritage.
• Access to heritage through education for vulnerable groups.
• Heritage communities.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Olaia Fontal-Merillas
Prof. Dr. Alex Ibañez-Etxeberria
Dr. Pablo De Castro Martín
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• heritage education
• higher education
• heritage sustainability
• heritage communities
• quantitative methodologies