Didactics of teaching the use of medicinal plants in the school medicinal garden

Abstract

The objective of this project is to implement a school medicinal garden where students carry out practical activities that lead to the cultural strengthening of the Cofán people. For this purpose, a participatory action research is carried out using the instruments that lead to collect the necessary information. Among them, interviews and surveys were applied to a group of people from the community to identify the level of knowledge about the use of medicinal plants, the categories and population were defined taking into account the identified problem. The result obtained was the articulation of practical activities from the school medicinal garden where students are facilitated to manipulate and observe directly the plants to facilitate their learning in a meaningful way in the use and care of them. In such a way that the school is able to demonstrate the sense of belonging and love for their culture from their worldview, respect for the rules, valuing and caring for plants as they have always been of great benefit for millennia for humanity, especially for indigenous peoples.  In addition, the participation of the community and the medicinal garden to continue practicing in the academic work of the students. In conclusion, there is a collection of information from the educational community as connoisseurs of the culture, which allows to have as a contribution to the institution information according to the needs of the community.