Community Education and Ethnobotany: Roots of Knowledge from An Environmental Approach
Over time, communities have developed their own customs for relating to their natural environment, based on their knowledge and experiences. This knowledge, especially in the human-plant relationship, includes multiple uses, such as medicinal or nutritional uses, which have been built through interg...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Instituto para la Investigación Educativa y el Desarrollo Pedagógico, IDEP
2024
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.idep.edu.co/index.php/educacion-y-ciudad/article/view/3230 |
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| Summary: | Over time, communities have developed their own customs for relating to their natural environment, based on their knowledge and experiences. This knowledge, especially in the human-plant relationship, includes multiple uses, such as medicinal or nutritional uses, which have been built through intergenerational educational processes. However, in contemporary society, this knowledge has experienced a reduction or fragmentation evidenced in the approach and interaction with communities and their natural environment. Therefore, this article aims to recognize the ethnobotanical knowledge of a peasant community from an environmental approach to strengthen the perception of Community Education scenarios. The study is carried out through qualitative research with some quantitative aspects through IV methodological phases: reading of the context, social characterization, design, application and analysis of data collection instruments. During the process, it was established that the recognition of ethnobotanical knowledge constitutes an important part in the construction and formation of the community based on dialogue and exchange of traditional knowledge. Likewise, it strengthens the perception of Community Education providing solid bases to rethink mechanisms of resistance and empowerment of the community by valuing its knowledge as experiential and local training that responds to current challenges. In the quantitative aspects, 191 species of plants were found distributed in 6 ethnobotanical uses: therapeutic, nutritional, ornamental, aesthetic, handicraft and spiritual, allowing to understand the dynamics between the peasant community and plants in a contextual framework in these community education scenarios. |
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