Novas abordagens no ensino de botânica e a restauração de áreas verdes escolares

Abstract

The teaching of botany over time was marked by numerous problems that eventually cause a lack of interest not only students but also teachers. Another problematic point is that often the botanical knowledge are renegades to the background in basic education, always set aside and taught surface or accelerated form, and may be the result of a lack of affinity of the teachers or the lack of proper training of teachers. Moreover, its content often come being taught by the traditional method of teaching, marked by exposure reading activities, storage and subsequent application tests. Therefore, there is a demand in developing and offerings of alternative practical activities and educational material that fosters new opportunities for differentiated learning. Another interesting factor that needs to be worked better is the question of biological conservation, in the consumerist world we live in is being totally forgotten and this neglect much of the population as the state ultimately promote the drastic reduction of green areas within the large central urban, directly impacting the environment and all natural balance and still causing health problems for the man himself caused this disaster. Was analyzing these aspects, the present work is to present a new proposal for teaching botany, combining new educational approaches such as meaningful learning, the historical critical perspective and an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of environmental conservation and reconstruction of green areas within the urban spaces. Its main goals rescue and revitalize the teaching of botany through new teaching methods, the development and the encouragement of critical thinking and awareness of environmental issues and finally it is intended to build and or recover green areas in school grounds. To achieve its objectives, the proposal seeks to use a variety of methods, ranging from practical classes, field classes and even a campaign for reconstruction of green areas. In a brief application experience of this proposal has been possible to realize a representative change in the participants, especially in its critical sense and increasing their interest in botany contents worked, thus leading us to realize that the proposal is best performed can meet the demands to what is proposed.