Utilização de Plantas medicinais por alunos da EJA na perspectiva da economia solidária.

Abstract

Y oung and Adult Education students have different perspecti ves on the future, rhey believe that Youth and Adult Education can be a detenuining factor in school education as weJI as in socialization, thus promoting improvements in the quality of life, and this can happen through of solidarity economy practices. The culture of using medicinal plants is a practice that has been prcsent since ancient times and is passed on from gcneration to generation by indigenous peoples, traditional populations that are made up of farmers, researchers. This work aims to perfonu a survey of the ways in whicb medicinal plants are used by students of Youth and Adult Education and their perspectives for a solidarity economy in a Municipal School in the city of Picuí, Paraíba. This research has a qualitative and quantitative character, whicb involves the obtaining of descriptive data, obtained in the direct contact of the researcber with the studied situation. emphasizes the process more than lhe product and is concerned witb portraying the perspcctives of the participants about the use of medicinal plants, Using as main tools the application of questionnaires and a Jecture-class. According to the characteristics of the system of production of medicinal plants described in this research, family farming presents favorable conditions for its cultivation. It is, therefore, another altemative in the generation of cmployment and income through a solidarity cconomy for this segment so important and represcntativc o f Brazil.