Análise da abordagem da flora nativa em livros didáticos de biologia usados em escolas de Aracaju - SE

Abstract

The Brazilian native ecosystems have been destroyed since the country’s discovery by the Portuguese, and this fact is also an educational problem. Being the school books still one of the most used resources in classrooms, the five most used books in schools of Aracaju were selected and the way the native flora is showed in these books was analyzed. The plant species presented in the text were listed and analyzed according to the following criteria: proportion between text and illustration, use of scientific nomenclature, contexts in which the plants are presented, and identification of the plant origin. Most plant examples found are presented in the contents related to Plant Morphology and Economic Importance, in the text, without any relationship with their environment, being the majority of these examples related to exotic plants.