Abordagens do ensino de botânica nos trabalhos de conclusão de mestrado do PROFBio (2019 - 2024)

Abstract

Botany is an area of study in Biology that encompasses morphology, anatomy, physiology, taxonomy and other sub-areas of plants. With this, Botany Education seeks to add to students' knowledge about its importance for the functioning of ecosystems and the survival of all species. However, the field still suffers from the consequences of Plant Imperception from students and even teachers, who summarize it as uninteresting and not important. With the aim of understanding the pedagogical and methodological approaches related to the Teaching of Botany in Basic Education, a bibliographical research was carried out with the Master's Completion Works (TCM) of the Postgraduate Program in Biology Teaching on a National Network (PROFBio) in the period from 2019 to 2024, where qualitative and quantitative data relating to the objective of the work were collected. The institutional repositories within the PROFBio subcommunity were consulted in search of works with “Botany teaching”, “plants”, “vegetation” and “flora” in the titles and abstract and Google Scholar with the search for “botany teaching tcm profbio” within the period from 2019 to 2024 to obtain the data. 911 TCMs were obtained from the 18 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that offer the program that dealt with the most diverse Biology content, 81 of them being about Botany. It was observed 911 TCM from the 18 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that offer the program that dealt with the most diverse Biology content, 81 of them being about Botany. It was also observed that the tendency is to approach the content of Classification of the four big groups and that the most used methodology was practical classes, with trips to the field, implementation of school gardens and work with medicinal plants. The results of the present work reflect the overcoming the challenges regarding Botany Teaching, where teachers seek, with their varied methodologies, to approach the topic so that their students not only understand the subject itself, but also realize the importance of plants and begin to see them beyond the green of the landscape.