[ Représentation des élèves de l'école secondaire de Bukavu face à l'apprentissage des plantes médicinales courantes en milieu scolaire ]
Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 138–152
Innocent Balagizi Karhagomba1, J. Murhega Mashanda2, and P. Isumbisho Mwapu3
1 Laboratoire de Didactique de Biologie, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique (ISP) de Bukavu, RD Congo
2 Département de Psychopédagogie, Institut Supérieur pédagogique (ISP), Bukavu, RD Congo
3 Département de Biologie, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique (ISP) de Bukavu, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper seeks to determine the basic knowledge of medicinal plants that can be integrated in secondary schools within Bukavu city where this topic is developed as Social sharp questions. From semi-structured interviews, and open-ended questionnaires submitted to, 13 schools (with 668 pupils registered from classes 4 and 5) results showed that 80 medicinal plants are well known by pupils. There was highly personal interest and motivation for learning medicinal plants in schools programs. Valuable topics were suggested covering medicinal plants uses, the origins and nature of medicinal plants; cultural-based for medicinal plants conservation; economic values of medicinal plants; medicinal plants processing and conservation, cultivation of medicinal plants; plants identification; and developing clinics and plants sale enterprises in schools. Teaching medicinal plants may cover all curriculum programs in secondary schools.
Author Keywords: Medicinal Plants, domestication, didactic triangulation, Sharp Social Questions, school curriculum, Biology teaching.
Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 138–152
Innocent Balagizi Karhagomba1, J. Murhega Mashanda2, and P. Isumbisho Mwapu3
1 Laboratoire de Didactique de Biologie, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique (ISP) de Bukavu, RD Congo
2 Département de Psychopédagogie, Institut Supérieur pédagogique (ISP), Bukavu, RD Congo
3 Département de Biologie, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique (ISP) de Bukavu, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper seeks to determine the basic knowledge of medicinal plants that can be integrated in secondary schools within Bukavu city where this topic is developed as Social sharp questions. From semi-structured interviews, and open-ended questionnaires submitted to, 13 schools (with 668 pupils registered from classes 4 and 5) results showed that 80 medicinal plants are well known by pupils. There was highly personal interest and motivation for learning medicinal plants in schools programs. Valuable topics were suggested covering medicinal plants uses, the origins and nature of medicinal plants; cultural-based for medicinal plants conservation; economic values of medicinal plants; medicinal plants processing and conservation, cultivation of medicinal plants; plants identification; and developing clinics and plants sale enterprises in schools. Teaching medicinal plants may cover all curriculum programs in secondary schools.
Author Keywords: Medicinal Plants, domestication, didactic triangulation, Sharp Social Questions, school curriculum, Biology teaching.
Abstract: (french)
Cet article se propose déterminer le niveau de connaissance des élèves sur les plantes médicinales domestiquées au sein des ménages en vue de leur adaptation dans les situations d'apprentissage. Les données collectées auprès de 688 élèves formés dans 13 écoles secondaires, ont montré que 80 espèces de plantes médicinales sont bien connues par les élèves, et peuvent être intégrées autour des neuf thèmes didactiques suivants: Usages thérapeutiques des plantes médicinales ; leurs Origines et Nature; Culture et entretien des plantes médicinales; leurs Valeurs économiques; Techniques de préparation des plantes médicinales ; Modes d'action et effets secondaires de ces plantes; Identification botanique ; lier les cultures traditionnelles et utilisation des plantes médicinales; création des officines de ventes des médicaments naturels. Un schéma didactique montrant les adaptations des activités pédagogiques sur les plantes médicinales en vue de stimuler le savoir, le savoir-faire et le savoir-être avec une approche curriculaire a été mis au point.
Author Keywords: Plantes médicinales, domestication, triangulation didactique, questions socialement vives, curriculum, enseignement de biologie.
How to Cite this Article
Innocent Balagizi Karhagomba, J. Murhega Mashanda, and P. Isumbisho Mwapu, “Pupil's representation on learning medicinal plants in Bukavu city's schools, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 138–152, January 2016.
