Heritage Education and Learning in Museums: The Managers' Perspective

This article analyses the notions of patrimonial managers in terms of the concept of heritage and its teaching and learning in non-formal educational areas. So, taking 43 managers of museums and patrimonial interpretation centres of the provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cadiz as our study sample, we present the conceptual obstacles detected to the development by this group of didactic proposals of a holistic, identitarian, innovating and socio-critical nature. To this end, two research instruments were designed: a data gathering questionnaire and a system of categories for analysis of the information obtained. As a result, the high degree of specialisation of the patrimonial managers is notable in terms of the concept of heritage compared with their scant training, conceptualisation and even interest in patrimonial education.