THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF SERGIPANA POPULAR CULTURE IN THE PROCESS OF LITERACY OF YOUTH AND ADULTS IN RURAL AREAS

Abstract

In Brazil, most illiterate or semi-educated people, young and adult as well, have vainly gone through official school programs and institutions. The unidentification not only of the pedagogical procedures involved but also of the clientele´s everyday life and outlook may be said to represent the major obstacles to academic archievement. Taking such problematic issue into account, this paper, carried out in classrooms for young and adult students in three Sergipe cities - Itaporanga D´ajuda, Riachuelo and Pinhão (all of them part of the government-led Programa de Alfabetização Solidária) - has had as objectives: to foster an uplift of self-esteem among those undergoing the literacy processes and at once cause them to value their own culture by identifying the medicinal herbs which popular knowledge, in each of the three cities, has deemed as such; also, based on their findings, the paper further tried to develop school activities in the fields of Sciences, History, Portuguese and Mathematics.