The course provides the methodological foundations related to the different paradigms, approaches, methodologies/tools that can be used in research on and in heritage. The link between research questions, context and research design will be explored during the course. A critical and reflective attitude will be required, as well as the reading and analysis of research documents.
The course will include lectures that will address the following topics:

• presentation of methodologies belonging to the qualitative and quantitative research tradition with the description of survey instruments useful for the evaluation and monitoring of individual experiences in heritage.
• reflection on challenge and resource aspects of interdisciplinary research, starting with the four key-elements described by Edgar Morin: the context, the global, the multidimensional, the complex
• ethnographic research methodologies, from an anthropological perspective, and its relevance in the field of tangible and intangible heritage
• data collection and analysis tools peculiar to participatory research in the humanities, with particular reference to the ways in which children and the elderly are actively involved.

The course will include the following lectures/seminars.
The entire didactic method of delivery is organised with face-to-face lectures (Didactics Erogative).
Dialogue lectures (including exercises and small laboratory activities) will be used to stimulate a critical approach to the discipline and reflection a reflection on the choice of research methodologies.

The course includes one or more evaluations.