شبکه مضامین راهبردهای برساختگرایی تفسیر میراث فرهنگی در چارچوب گردشگری.

The Network of Themes of Constructivist Strategies for Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Context of Tourism.

Nowadays, cultural heritage is defined as a way for contemporary man to interact with history and past; consequently, heritage interpretation is beyond the mere transfer of information from specialists to nonspecialists. As contemporary interpretation has been conceptualized to guide people towards a constructive interaction with the cultural heritage. Based on this, the current research examines the evolution of heritage interpretation and the transition from positivist interpretation to constructivist interpretation. After developing the theoretical framework, using in-depth semi-structured interviews with experienced cultural tourism guides (interpreters), examine the effectiveness of their interpretation strategies from the two mentioned approaches. The research method is qualitative, and the sampling method is snowball. Data collection was done in 2021 and continued until theoretical saturation was reached (14th interview), and the results were analyzed using Maxqda10 software based on the thematic analysis method. The results showed that the themes of interpreting the site as a part of the whole, connecting the past and present, adapting the content of the interpretation to the previous knowledge, making the past of the site tangible for tourists, storytelling and narration using elements of intangible culture, participation of tourists in the process of interpretation and encouragement of discourse and self-interpretation, stimulating the mental creativity of tourists and education and flexibility in the program and allowing the visitor to discover is the correspondence of the strategies of the structuralist approach with the perspective of tourism commentators and their influence from this approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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