Heritage education: felt needs of the teachers of pre-school, primary and secondary education

Exploratory study in which the patrimonial education needs of 40 teachers from the infant, primary and secondary stages of two educational schools in the province of A Coruna are identified. The main objective is based on the diagnosis of needs and the formulation of goals and objectives for the design and implementation of specific heritage education programs. For the collection of information, a mixed method was chosen, with a questionnaire consisting of closed and open items. The information was analysed from variables included in four dimensions created from the data: training; Social context; methodology and expected results of a heritage education program. Among the most relevant results are a) the need for specific training in heritage education and b) the need to have specific materials to work on local heritage. This study shows several lines in which it would be ideal to work for the implementation of patrimonial education programs or practices: the adaptation of the designs to the diagnosis of needs, the incidence in the initial and continuous patrimonial education training of the teaching staff and the relationship and linking of the programs with the local environment of the schools.