Un camino hacia la armonía con la naturaleza, trazado desde el reconocimiento de los saberes populares que han construido los niños, niñas y adolescentes, en torno a las plantas medicinales.

Abstract

This research project was based on the value of consolidating a harmonious relationship between nature and children and adolescents (NNA), participants in the construction of the process, due to: the problems found in the contexts inhabited by them, as the product of an unbalanced, anthropocentric relationship between human beings and nature, which in addition to the local environment, converges in national and global dimensions; the perspectives of detachment, unconcern and supremacy that they manifested during the first pedagogical sessions; and the understanding of nature promoted by the subject "Natural Sciences", only from scientific knowledge. The latter, by expressing a rejection towards the inclusion of popular knowledge, built from the everyday life of children and adolescents, in the understanding of nature, denoted the validity of the abysmal thinking referred to by Santos (2009) and, in view of this, prompted the exploration that, according to the interests of the members of the child population, ended up installing the popular knowledge around medicinal plants as a pedagogical mediator from which pedagogical strategies were structured, aimed at contributing to a harmonious relationship with nature and, at the same time, to a harmonious relationship with nature, ended up installing popular knowledge about medicinal plants as a pedagogical mediator from which pedagogical strategies were structured, aimed at contributing to the harmonious relationship with nature and, in turn, in the recognition of popular knowledge as a field that, despite being different from the scientific one, is equally valid.