This study examines science teachers' beliefs and ideas about science prior to and following a one and a half day workshop on Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Witsuwit'en knowledge of science. It is part of a wider study initiated by the Aboriginal Enhancements Branch of the BC Ministry of Education to determine why Aboriginal students are not enrolling in the sciences. A broad range of qualitative methodologies were applied, including pre and post instructional questionnaires, an experiential field trip to traditional Witsuwit'en territories as well as an instructional workshop and a dialogue process. Aspects of Indigenous methodology were included that were central to the lived experience of the Witsuwit'en people whose territories we were on and with whom the research was being conducted. Post-workshop questionnaire responses indicated that teachers' developed a broader understanding of Witsuwit'en Traditional Knowledge systems and a deeper respect for the contributions of the local First Nations to the sciences.

This study examines science teachers' beliefs and ideas about science prior to and following a one and a half day workshop on Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Witsuwit'en knowledge of science. It is part of a wider study initiated by the Aboriginal Enhancements Branch of the BC Ministry of Education to determine why Aboriginal students are not enrolling in the sciences. A broad range of qualitative methodologies were applied, including pre and post instructional questionnaires, an experiential field trip to traditional Witsuwit'en territories as well as an instructional workshop and a dialogue process. Aspects of Indigenous methodology were included that were central to the lived experience of the Witsuwit'en people whose territories we were on and with whom the research was being conducted. Post-workshop questionnaire responses indicated that teachers' developed a broader understanding of Witsuwit'en Traditional Knowledge systems and a deeper respect for the contributions of the local First Nations to the sciences.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:39:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1938.pdf: 3986372 bytes, checksum: 48c2d4899bb71a816ebddf58562a54bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-13 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The Research and Development (R&D) in ethnopharmacology and etnobiology fields, guided by the therapeutic information obtained with local communities and indigenous people, holders of traditional knowledge, produces social conflicts and social disputes. Firstly, it is a paradoxical scientific activity since the modern scientific discovery in ethnopharmacology is produced by a non-scientific knowledge. This controversial research strategy intends to produce a socially legitimized knowledge through a process of epistemic standardization. Secondly, although the use of traditional knowledge is a typical activity, to access it and to use it requires the signature of a contract for the equitable sharing of benefits as well as the signature of a term of prior consent access. These two juridical requirements are at the same time a new ethical parameter in scientific research and a barrier to the autonomy of the scientific field. Therefore, through the politic action scientists and researches seeks new social strategies to recovery the autonomy of the scientific field in ethnopharmacology and ethnobiology areas. Thus, this sociological research analyzes the internal conflicts between scientists in the scientific field through the examination of the social controversies in the use of two distinct research models, the vertical and the horizontal research models, as well as the examination of the external social disputes of the scientific activity, specially the politic action of scientists concerning to the autonomy question. In this research, the question of access, use and equitable sharing of benefits in R&D processes emerges as an interesting strategy used by scientists to legitimate the appropriation of the traditional knowledge. As non-knowledge, the traditional knowledge is transformed by the modern commercial science in generic information without significance. At the same time, this traditional generic information would be liable to be manipulated and appropriated by pharmaceutical multinationals trough the application of intellectual property rights. Finally, the appropriation of the traditional communities claim intends to legitimate socially the controversial scientific activity of ethnopharmacologists, ethnobiologists and pharmaceutical industries. / A pesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D) nas áreas de etnofarmacologia e etnobiologia, guiada por informações terapêuticas levantadas junto as comunidades locais e indígenas, detentoras do conhecimento tradicional, acarreta uma série de disputas e conflitos sociais. Em primeiro lugar, trata-se de uma atividade científica paradoxal, pois a descoberta científica moderna é produzida a partir de um conhecimento nãocientífico. Esta controversa atividade de pesquisa busca um conhecimento socialmente legitimado através de um processo de padronização epistêmica. Em segundo lugar, embora o emprego de conhecimento tradicional seja uma atividade usual, acessá-lo e utilizá-lo requerem a assinatura de um contrato para a divisão justa e eqüitativa de benefícios e do termo de consentimento livre e esclarecido. Estes dois pré-requisitos jurídicos são, ao mesmo tempo, um novo parâmetro ético na pesquisa científica e uma barreira para a autonomia do campo científico. Neste universo, através da ação política, cientistas e pesquisadores buscam novas estratégias para recuperar a autonomia perdida do campo científico nas áreas de etnofarmacologia e etnobiologia. Assim, esta pesquisa sociológica analisa os conflitos internos entre cientistas no interior do campo científico através do exame das controvérsias sociais no uso de dois modelos distintos de pesquisa, o modelo vertical e o modelo horizontal de pesquisa, bem como examina as disputas sociais externas à atividade científica, especialmente a ação política de cientistas sobre a questão da autonomia. Nesta pesquisa, a questão do acesso, do uso e da repartição justa e eqüitativa de benefícios nos processos de P&D emerge como uma interessante estratégia utilizada por cientistas para legitimar a apropriação do conhecimento tradicional. Como um não-conhecimento, o conhecimento tradicional é transformado pela moderna ciência comercial em uma informação genérica sem significado. Ao mesmo tempo, esta informação tradicional genérica seria passível de ser manipulada e apropriada por multinacionais farmacêuticas através da aplicação de direitos de propriedade intelectual. Finalmente, a apropriação das reivindicações de comunidades tradicionais objetiva legitimar socialmente a controversa atividade científica de etnofarmacólogos, etnobiólogos e indústrias farmacêuticas.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-12T19:18:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaVLF_TESE.pdf: 3159699 bytes, checksum: 069d5112225096e36b990570dd69a9bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-26 / The purpose of the present study was to conduct an ethnobotanical research about the use and handling of vegetable resources, especially medicinal, in São João da Várzea s community, Mossoró-RN, emphasizing informants perception in relation to domestic spaces and conservation of these resources. The research was divided in three chapters. First chapter refers to a general introduction and a literature review about the subject. The second chapter includes the study about the use and handling of vegetable resources present in domestic spaces of 22 productive units, emphasizing medicinal plants. The third chapter, on the other hand, includes a study realized with two key informants, in order to recover the traditional knowledge of these about the use and handling of medicinal plants and their perception about phenological aspects and species conservation. The data of the last two chapters were collected using several techniques, such as: direct and participant observation, informal and semistructured interviews, free list, history of life, participative mapping and guided tour or walk-in-the-woods. The domestic spaces of productive units realized by the 22 informants have own characteristics and functions, modeled in accordance with knowledge and particularity of each family. These spaces are consisting of a large diversity of vegetable species that being used for many purposes, especially the medicinal use. The two key informants show to have a lot of knowledge about medicinal use of species found in domestic spaces and around the productive units, as well as about phenological aspects, handle and conservation of them / O objetivo do presente trabalho foi realizar um estudo etnobotânico sobre o uso e manejo de recursos vegetais, sobretudo medicinais, na comunidade São João da Várzea, Mossoró-RN, enfatizando a percepção dos informantes em relação aos espaços domésticos e à conservação destes recursos. A pesquisa foi dividida em três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo refere-se à introdução geral e uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o assunto. O segundo capítulo abrangeu o estudo sobre o uso e o manejo de recursos vegetais presentes em espaços domésticos de 22 unidades produtivas, enfatizando-se as plantas medicinais. O terceiro capítulo, por sua vez, compreendeu um estudo realizado com duas informantes-chave, visando resgatar os conhecimentos tradicionais destas sobre o uso e manejo de plantas medicinais e a percepção das mesmas sobre aspectos fenológicos e de conservação das espécies. Os dados dos dois últimos capítulos foram coletados utilizando-se várias técnicas, tais como: observação direta e participante, entrevistas informais e semiestruturadas, lista livre, história de vida, mapeamento participativo e turnê guiada ou walk-in-the-woods. Os espaços domésticos das unidades produtivas percebidos pelos 22 informantes possuem características e funções próprias, modeladas de acordo com o conhecimento e particularidades de cada família. Estes espaços são compostos por grande diversidade de espécies vegetais que são utilizadas para várias finalidades, destacando-se o uso medicinal. As duas informantes-chave demonstraram possuir grande conhecimento sobre o uso medicinal das espécies encontradas nos espaços domésticos e no entorno das unidades produtivas, bem como a respeito de aspectos fenológicos, manejo e conservação das mesmas

Magister Legum - LLM (Mercantile and Labour Law) / Traditional Knowledge (TK) has previously been considered a 'subject' in the public domain, unworthy of legal protection. However, the last few decades have witnessed increased discussions on the need to protect the knowledge of indigenous peoples for their economic sustenance, the conservation of biodiversity and modern scientific innovation. Questions remain as to how TK can best be protected through existing, adapted or sui generis legal frameworks. Based on an examination of the formal knowledge-protection mechanisms (i.e. the existing intellectual property system), this mini-thesis contends that these existing systems are inadequate for protecting TK. As a matter of fact, they serve as veritable platforms for incidences of biopiracy. It further argues that the many international initiatives designed to protect TK have so far failed owing to inherent shortcomings embedded in them. Furthermore, a comparative assessment of several national initiatives (in New Zealand, South Africa and Kenya) supports an understanding that several domestic efforts to protect TK have been rendered ineffective due to the insurmountable challenge of dealing with the international violations of local TK rights. It is therefore important that on-going international negotiations for the protection of TK, including the negotiations within the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC), do not adopt similar approaches to those employed in previous initiatives if TK must be efficiently and effectively protected. This mini-thesis concludes that indigenous peoples possess peculiar protection mechanisms for their TK within the ambit of their customary legal systems and that these indigenous mechanisms are the required anchors for effective global protections.

Magister Legum - LLM (Mercantile and Labour Law) / Traditional Knowledge (TK) has previously been considered a 'subject' in the public domain, unworthy of legal protection. However, the last few decades have witnessed increased discussions on the need to protect the knowledge of indigenous peoples for their economic sustenance, the conservation of biodiversity and modern scientific innovation. Questions remain as to how TK can best be protected through existing, adapted or sui generis legal frameworks. Based on an examination of the formal knowledge-protection mechanisms (i.e. the existing intellectual property system), this mini-thesis contends that these existing systems are inadequate for protecting TK. As a matter of fact, they serve as veritable platforms for incidences of biopiracy. It further argues that the many international initiatives designed to protect TK have so far failed owing to inherent shortcomings embedded in them. Furthermore, a comparative assessment of several national initiatives (in New Zealand, South Africa and Kenya) supports an understanding that several domestic efforts to protect TK have been rendered ineffective due to the insurmountable challenge of dealing with the international violations of local TK rights. It is therefore important that on-going international negotiations for the protection of TK, including the negotiations within the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC), do not adopt similar approaches to those employed in previous initiatives if TK must be efficiently and effectively protected. This mini-thesis concludes that indigenous peoples possess peculiar protection mechanisms for their TK within the ambit of their customary legal systems and that these indigenous mechanisms are the required anchors for effective global protections.

As percepções e os saberes das populações tradicionais vêm conquistando cada vez mais espaço no meio acadêmico e nas instituições governamentais. Tal valorização ganha projeção uma vez que estes grupos apresentam culturas comumente mais conservacionistas e integradas aos locais onde vivem do que a sociedade urbano-industrial, e suas práticas servem de exemplo para a gestão e para a conservação ambiental. Entretanto, a valorização desses saberes ainda é incipiente no que se refere à conservação de áreas naturais, tanto no Brasil quanto no mundo. O presente estudo, através dos fundamentos da Geografia Cultural Humanística, descreve e interpreta a geograficidade e parte dos conhecimentos ambientais dos pescadores do Lago Guaíba, com relação à qualidade das águas, a ictiofauna e os impactos ambientais presentes no manancial. Como parte dos resultados, temos a hierarquização dos principais impactos ambientais presentes no Lago, descritos pelos pescadores. De modo sucinto, os pescadores destacam como o principal degradante do manancial o esgoto doméstico, seguido pelo lixo sobrenadante, a ação das balsas de extração de areia (areeiras), a contaminação de origem industrial e, em quinto e último lugar, a contaminação por agrotóxicos. O estudo apresenta ainda propostas de gerenciamento, por parte dos pescadores e do pesquisador, com o intuito de enriquecer o processo de gestão de suas águas, revalorizando os saberes dos pescadores do delta do rio Jacuí. / The perceptions and knowledge of traditional populations are conquering each increasingly space in academic and in government institutions. This valuation gains projection since these groups have crops most commonly integrated conservation and the places where they live than the urban-industrial society, and its practices serve as an example for the management and for environmental conservation. However , the valorization of these knowing is still budding about the conservation of natural areas, both in Brazil as in the world. The present studied, through the foundations of Cultural Geography, describes and interprets the geographical experiences and part of the environmental knowledge of the fishermen of Lake Guaíba, with regard to water quality, fish and environmental impacts in the wealth. As part of the results, we have a hierarchy of the main environmental impacts in the Lake, described by fishermen. In brief, the fishermen out as the main source of degrading the domestic sewage, followed by garbage supernatant, the action of ferries of extraction of sand (bot of sands), the contamination from industry, and in fifth and last place, the contamination by pesticides. The study also presents proposals for management on the part of fishermen and the search in order to enrich the process of managing their water, raising the knowledge of fishermen on the delta of the river Jacuí.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_Mestrado_Educação.pdf: 2803403 bytes, checksum: 30a393b7df2b7f3782e448ce9203e75d (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia. / Temos atualmente no campo científico uma discussão importante no que se refere à exposição de conteúdos de biologia como sendo verdades únicas e com valor de estabilidade, em detrimento da valorização de conhecimentos outros dos estudantes, como os conhecimentos tradicionais, sendo a diversidade cultural pouco considerada na prática pedagógica. As plantas representam patrimônio histórico e natural da humanidade e elas têm relação com a construção dinâmica de culturas tradicionais. Fazem parte, portanto, das relações sociedade-natureza e, obviamente, é importante que a educação escolar esteja envolvida na formação cidadã dos estudantes que preze por uma responsabilidade socioambiental com respeito às florestas. Apesar de a Ilha de Maré ser parte do município de Salvador, a cultura e os costumes de seus moradores são bastante diferenciados do que se observa no continente, apresentando práticas peculiares associadas à aproximação e ao uso das plantas. Fundamentada no multiculturalismo crítico e na fenomenologia, nossa pesquisa esteve comprometida na análise do contexto que envolve as aprendizagens geradas a partir de uma sequência didática sobre reprodução vegetal, construída numa perspectiva sociocultural, por meio de uma parceria com a professora de biologia de uma turma de 2º ano do Ensino Médio de um colégio estadual de Salvador que recebe alunos que moram na Ilha de Maré. A partir de estudos de campo em Ilha de Maré com os moradores e os estudantes sobre questões relacionadas às plantas locais, obtivemos subsídio à construção e posterior desenvolvimento em sala de aula de uma sequência didática, avaliada de modo colaborativo com base no processo e no contexto das aprendizagens e nas vozes dos atores sociais envolvidos. Por se tratar de uma pesquisa situada e contextual, na qual construímos e avaliamos a sequência didática a partir da cultura local, enfatizando o contexto em que ocorrem os fenômenos, ela corresponde a um estudo de caso, de abordagem qualitativa. O desenvolvimento da sequência didática apontou alguns aspectos relevantes: a) o diálogo intercultural possibilitou o desenvolvimento de habilidades crítico-argumentativas e favoreceu a compreensão de conceitos sobre reprodução das angiospermas, sendo a ampliação do conhecimento da ciência escolar alcançada, embora não plenamente; b) as atividades avaliativas favoreceram o processo de aprendizagem; c) a abordagem multicultural crítica que desenvolvemos não foi capaz de favorecer o olhar em todos os alunos sobre as possibilidades de risco ao se usar remédios e também os chás, e d) alguns termos científicos foram relatados como de difícil compreensão, evidenciando os desafios ao cruzamento de fronteiras. Destacamos os elementos da sequência didática que podem ser tomados como referência para práticas pedagógicas inovadoras e significantes: a) a abordagem intercultural crítica; b) as formas de avaliação com as habilidades criativas acionadas; c) o uso de outras linguagens nas aulas e na Material Impresso Contextual; d) a explicitação sobre aspectos históricos da construção da ciência e sua natureza; e) a valorização tanto do contexto sociocultural quanto das falas dos estudantes no processo de diálogo; f) a associação entre a reprodução das plantas e questões ecológicas; g) o ensino a partir de plantas conhecidas pelos estudantes, e h) o cuidado para que o enfoque sociocultural de diálogo não interferisse na discussão sistemática do conhecimento científico. Apesar de a sequência didática desenvolvida ser um modelo inacabado, sugerimos que essa ferramenta seja adaptada a outros contextos, sendo os princípios validados nessa pesquisa - ambiental, cultural e epistemológico - recomendados para o desenho de propostas inovadoras de ensino. / ABSTRACT Currently we have in the field scientific an important discussion about exposition of the biology contents as unique truths and with value of stability, to the detriment of the appreciation of other knowledge of the students, as the traditional knowledge, and the cultural diversity has been poorly considered in the pedagogical practice. The plants represent historical and natural patrimony of humanity and they have relation with the dynamics construction of the traditional cultures. They are part, therefore, of the relations society-nature and, obviously, is important that the scholar education is involved civic education of the students that prizes by social environmental responsibility with respect to forests. Although “Ilha de Maré” is part of the Salvador city, the culture and the habits of its residents are quite differentiated from that observed on the continent, presenting peculiar practices associated with the approximation and use of plants. Grounded in critical multiculturalism and in phenomenology, our research was compromised in the analysis of the context that involved the learning generated from a teaching sequence about plant propagation, constructed on a sociocultural perspective, through a partnership with the biology teacher in a class of 2nd year high school students in a public school in Salvador which receives students who live on the “Ilha de Maré”. From field studies in “Ilha de Maré” with residents and students about issues related to local plants, we obtained subsidy for construction and further development in the classroom of a teaching sequence, evaluated in a collaborative form based on the process and in the context of learning and the voices of the social actors involved. Because it is a situated and contextualized research, in which we constructed and evaluated the teaching sequence from the local culture, emphasizing the context in which the phenomena occur, it corresponds to a case study, of the qualitative approach. The development of didactic sequence pointed out some important aspects: a) the intercultural dialogue enabled the development of argumentative and critical skills and facilitating of the understanding of concepts about reproduction of angiosperms, with the expansion of knowledge of school science achieved, though not fully; b) the evaluative activities enable the learning process; c) the critical multicultural approach that we developed was not able to promote in all students the look about the possibilities of risk when using medicines and also teas, e d) some scientific terms were reported as difficult to understand due to the challenges of crossing borders. Include the elements of the teaching sequence that can be taken as reference for innovative and significant pedagogical practices: a) the critical multicultural approach; b) the forms of evaluation with creative skills requested; c) the use of other languages in the classroom and in the contextualized handout; d) the explicitness about historical aspects of construction of science and its nature; e) the valuation of both the sociocultural context and the speech of students in the dialogue process; f) the association between the reproduction of plants and ecological issues; g) the teaching from plants known to the students, and h) the care for the sociocultural approach of dialogue does not interfere with systematic and thorough discussion of scientific knowledge. Although of the teaching sequence developed to be an unfinished model, we suggest that this tool is adapted to other contexts, being the principles validated in this research - environmental, cultural and epistemological - recommended for the design of innovative teaching proposals.

As percepções e os saberes das populações tradicionais vêm conquistando cada vez mais espaço no meio acadêmico e nas instituições governamentais. Tal valorização ganha projeção uma vez que estes grupos apresentam culturas comumente mais conservacionistas e integradas aos locais onde vivem do que a sociedade urbano-industrial, e suas práticas servem de exemplo para a gestão e para a conservação ambiental. Entretanto, a valorização desses saberes ainda é incipiente no que se refere à conservação de áreas naturais, tanto no Brasil quanto no mundo. O presente estudo, através dos fundamentos da Geografia Cultural Humanística, descreve e interpreta a geograficidade e parte dos conhecimentos ambientais dos pescadores do Lago Guaíba, com relação à qualidade das águas, a ictiofauna e os impactos ambientais presentes no manancial. Como parte dos resultados, temos a hierarquização dos principais impactos ambientais presentes no Lago, descritos pelos pescadores. De modo sucinto, os pescadores destacam como o principal degradante do manancial o esgoto doméstico, seguido pelo lixo sobrenadante, a ação das balsas de extração de areia (areeiras), a contaminação de origem industrial e, em quinto e último lugar, a contaminação por agrotóxicos. O estudo apresenta ainda propostas de gerenciamento, por parte dos pescadores e do pesquisador, com o intuito de enriquecer o processo de gestão de suas águas, revalorizando os saberes dos pescadores do delta do rio Jacuí. / The perceptions and knowledge of traditional populations are conquering each increasingly space in academic and in government institutions. This valuation gains projection since these groups have crops most commonly integrated conservation and the places where they live than the urban-industrial society, and its practices serve as an example for the management and for environmental conservation. However , the valorization of these knowing is still budding about the conservation of natural areas, both in Brazil as in the world. The present studied, through the foundations of Cultural Geography, describes and interprets the geographical experiences and part of the environmental knowledge of the fishermen of Lake Guaíba, with regard to water quality, fish and environmental impacts in the wealth. As part of the results, we have a hierarchy of the main environmental impacts in the Lake, described by fishermen. In brief, the fishermen out as the main source of degrading the domestic sewage, followed by garbage supernatant, the action of ferries of extraction of sand (bot of sands), the contamination from industry, and in fifth and last place, the contamination by pesticides. The study also presents proposals for management on the part of fishermen and the search in order to enrich the process of managing their water, raising the knowledge of fishermen on the delta of the river Jacuí.

This thesis focus on the unidimensional adscriptions of value behind industrial soybeans production in Paraguay. The thesis aims to present non-economic Nature’s Contributions to traditional farmers’ quality of life, the role of farmers’ traditional knowledge to display these contributions and the efficiency of such knowledge regarding high productive demands. From a theoretical framework based on nature’s contributions to people, ecosystem services, knowledge systems and conservation, the thesis formulates the following research questions: 1) What drives the prioritization of a single economic value on nature’s contributions to people in rural Paraguay? 2) What is the value of non-economic nature’s contributions, and what is the role of traditional farmers on displaying these values? The study mostly relies in primary data obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted during fieldwork period in the study area of San Pedro, Eastern Paraguay. The results present a plural assessment on nature’s contributions and the adaptation of small farmers to modern farming techniques. The thesis concludes that a perspective dominated by unidimensional value can be socially motivated within the rush for development in Paraguay, a concept tied to economic growth and modernization. In addition, nature’s contributions displayed by small farmers suggest that community-based conservation could represent a more sustainable approach for the farmers’ needs and the current environmental challenges of the country.