O USO DE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS PARA EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NAS ESCOLAS MUNICIPAIS DE JARAGUÁ-GOIÁS.

Abstract

In Brazil, environmental education has become Law No 9795 on April 27, 1999. As a permanent and essential component of national education that should be present in order articulated at all levels and modalities of the educational process, in character formal and non-formal. Environmental education in all attempts to awaken the conscience of the human being is part of the environment, superadded the anthropocentric view and develop an educational activity which seeks a permanent practice that binds the student to the school community and non-school to develop values and attitudes that promote a behavior directed the transformation overcome this reality, both in natural and social aspects to develop a process of transformation. To achieve this goal has proposed the creation of gardens for medicinal plants typical of the Cerrado in schools in the municipal network of Jaraguá seeking to promote environmental education and the consequent preservation and enhancement of that work.