Um livro escrito a partir de vivências didáticas com as plantas voltado para o enfrentamento da invisibilidade botânica

Abstract

Ordinary people has a low interest in the study of plants, which is reflected in low the quality of Botany classes and in the lack of sensitivity (or difficulty of perception) of the population for individual and collective actions of environment preservation. Plant Blindness (Invisibilidade Botânica) is an important phenomenon for understanding this context. This research intends to discuss the phenomenon of Plant Blindness and proposes strategies of coping it through workshops of perception of plants and the performance of a "mentor of plants" with children from 9 to 12 years in spaces of formal education and non-formal education. Results of this research subsidized elaboration of an youth book of scientific divulgation "As crianças que percebiam as plantas" that discusses Plant Blindness, as well as a Manual of Perception Workshops on the Perceptions of Plants, adapted from the methodology of university extension project “Universidade das Crianças”. Both book and manual can be used as didactic resources to cope with Plant Blindness.