Educação ambiental: plantas medicinais e sagradas na ruralidade metropolitana em Salvador-Ba

Abstract

This research was based on the pedagogical practice of the researcher teaching Philosophy and Sociology in High School at the State College Edvaldo Brandão Correia, Cajazeiras IV, Salvador-BA, where since 2011 he sought in his classes philosophically contextualize the importance of activities with the environment. Maintaining this line of action research started the Professional Master's degree in Environmental Planning, this time involving the students of the 6th year of elementary school, the parents/ guardians, teachers and employees of the State College Luiz Fernando Macedo Costa, located in Cajazeiras VII, in the same city. Thus arises the guiding question: How to stimulate the cultivation of medicinal plants from species of the Atlantic Forest Biome, as a pedagogical process of environmental education? The proposal of master's research involving plant cultivation practice in urban school community aimed to encourage individuals to seek a reunion with nature, turn to what they learned from their ancestors and help revitalize the space that live. To recognize the local reality, some territorial information about the region where schools are inserted and also visits to institutions that already participated in actions to conserve the local environment. It was observed that rural practices and the urban environment were present where it is possible to visualize a large forest that surrounds the population density of the neighborhood of Cajazeiras; however, it has been found that forest areas are being decimated for new constructions. The general objective of the research was to enable a socio-environmental rescue of the cultivation of medicinal and sacred plants of the Atlantic Forest biome as a pedagogical process of environmental education. The specific objectives of the research, of an investigative and interventional nature, meet the character of pedagogical action research. Raise the subjects aware of the need for conservation and replanting medicinal and/or sacred plants in order to prevent them from being eradicated in the Region of Cajazeiras, Salvador-Bahia. Two scientific articles are presented: the first reports pedagogical practice with adult high school students and a dip in the religiosity of African matrix covering the sacred leaves. The second with underage students from elementary school, where the action research was carried out with medicinal plants. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to collect and process data. Because it is a professional master's degree, it has as its final product a documentary video where it approaches the whole theme of the research.