Heritage, Territory and Citizenship in Early Childhood Education: Students' Conceptions

Early Childhood Education is the ideal stage to begin to implement heritage education that reinforces students' identity links with their territory and community and promotes participation in their environment. Thus, the aim of this study is to compare the conceptions of heritage, territory and citizenship of two groups of students at the 5-year- old level on the basis of their previous participation -or lack of it- in innovation projects in heritage education. To this end, a group interview and a drawing selection form were used as data collection instruments, ATLAS.ti v.23 software was used to analyse the information and a system of categories was used as a reference for its interpretation. The results reveal significant differences between the two groups in relation to their concept of heritage and citizenship, and similarities in terms of their notion of territory and environment.