Práticas populares de enxertia e os saberes botânicos envolvidos: possibilidades da integração de saberes no ensino de ciências e Biologia

Abstract

Grafting is the process of connecting plant tissues of two plants, different individuals that start to develop as if they were one. It is considered an ancient technique and is related to traditional peoples. Considering the difficulty of teaching learning in the discipline of botany, knowing the different ways of practicing grafting is an important mechanism for approximating the botanical knowledge exercised daily to the teaching of biology. Thus, this work aimed to investigate the grafting practices developed by local popular communities and the botanical knowledge involved to point out the possibilities of integrating the theme to the teaching of Sciences and Biology. For this, three men were interviewed who developed grafting techniques on plants. The research was conducted through semi-structured interviews and the speeches from the interviews were submitted to qualitative analysis. We realized that grafting techniques have great potential for the study and understanding of the physiological, anatomical, and reproductive processes of plants, making it possible to integrate popular knowledge with scientists in the classroom, making the teaching of botany meaningful and contextualized for both the educator and the student.