A etnobiologia na educação escolar: proposta de interação entre o conhecimento científico e popular

Abstract

The teaching of Biology is still often approached by rote, as a mere transmission of content and this, in most cases, is decontextualized from environmental reality that surrounds the lives of students. The work aimed to analyze the ethnobiology can contribute the learning of biological knowledge, while interacting with the scientific knowledge and popular. For specific objectives the research aims to study conceptions of scientific knowledge; understand the scientific method, fueling the debate between Natural and Human Sciences; realize the contributions of popular knowledge in the social sphere; understand ethnoknowledge and ethnobiology. The research becomes important to integrate scientific knowledge with knowledge through popular ethnobiology. The data were obtained from literature review, seeking theoretical elements underpinning knowledge on the subject. When diagnosing themselves as knowing border, ethnobiology, provokes discussions about Western scientific epistemology, seeking to understand the appropriation of nature by humans, taxonomies and classifications totalizing, fostering information between Biology and everyday life. However, quantitative research should be developed assessing ethno certain areas of knowledge, in order to consolidate the theoretical foundation, construction methods and materials that allow not understand that "there is a war" between knowledge, but a closeness that will help in building multidisciplinary knowledge.