Etnobotânica no âmbito escolar: percepção dos professores de biologia de uma instituição federal de ensino sobre plantas medicinais

Abstract

Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary science that is responsible for bringing formal knowledge closer to empirical knowledge. The objective of this study was to analyze how Ethnobotany is known and worked on by the teachers of the federal teaching institute of the state of Piauí, as well as the teaching perception about the medicinal flora known and used by them. The research was carried out with 30 professors from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI). The data were collected through online questionnaires using the Google Forms platform and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. It emerged, that the teachers interviewed, despite having knowledge about medicinal plants, do not usually spread Ethnobotany in the classroom and / or present it in a transversal way to teaching botany. As a way of exemplifying a way of approaching this knowledge, an explanatory folder was created with the medicinal plants most cited by the participating teachers, in which it can be produced by teachers and students as a didactic tool in botany classes. The dissemination of the folder and its content stimulates the diffusion of traditional knowledge in the classroom, providing interaction between the community and the school