Abstract

BALDIN, Nelma  and  ACOSTA, Patricia Mary Real. Social Representation of the popular use of medicinal plants: experience in a rural community. R. Educ. Públ. [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.64, pp.159-178. ISSN 2238-2097.  https://doi.org/10.5965/01045962v27n642018159.

The article is part of a research carried with children in the 5th grade of elementary school of the Municipal School and their mothers and grandmothers, of a rural community located in Joinville (SC). The objective focused to seek the social, cultural and economic representa tions of the popular use of medicinal plants by the community. We used the qualitative methodologie based on the theory of social re presentations and phenomenological method. It was observed that the majority of the study population have some kind of medicinal plant cultivated in their home gardens. The most common form of the use of these plants as tea, or infusion, and plaster.

Keywords : Social Representations; Medicinal Plants; Environmental Education.

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