Teaching heritage in Social Science, Geography and History textbooks in Compulsory Secondary Education / La enseñanza del patrimonio en los libros de texto de Ciencias Sociales, Geografía e Historia para ESO

Resumen

The role of heritage in Compulsory Secondary Education is analysed through the Social Science, Geography and History textbooks edited by the three most widely distributed publishing houses in three Spanish regions. The aim is to characterize the patrimonial outlook transmitted by these materials, detect the difficulties and obstacles in terms of heritage education and contribute to enable the integration of heritage education from a transdisciplinary, constructivist and socio-critical perspective. To this end, different research instruments are developed (progression hypothesis, sheets for observation and data collection, and category tables) to enable a systematic and rigorous analysis of the 24 textbooks studied. In general, the results allow us to confirm the initial hypothesis, highlighting the disciplinary use of heritage as an illustrative and educational resource. Historical and artistic elements stand out over other manifestations of heritage as a function of their stylistic and monumental values. No significant differences were found in content among the published materials in the different autonomous communities.