Concepts about snakes among young students of high school: a dialogue between science and culture

Authors

  • Aline Wanessa Pinheiro Silva Universidade do Estado do Pará
  • Sinaida Maria Vasconcelos de Castro Universidade do Estado do Pará
  • Maria Dulcimar de Brito Silva Universidade do Estado do Pará
  • Paulo Henrique Gomes de castro Centro Nacional de Primatas
  • Janael Barbosa Costa Universidade do Estado do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14808/sci.plena.2016.069925

Keywords:

Ethnoherpetology, Serpents, Environmental education

Abstract

The study was developed in order to identify the concepts that permeate etnoherpetológica vision in relation to snakes, among high school students in the city of Santa Izabel do Para / PA. Because they are animals considered dangerous ignorance of their biology causes indiscriminate killing, which ultimately could result in an environmental imbalance. From this problematic work conducted the survey of students' conceptions regarding snakes through prior questionnaire in school and later as environmental educative action intervention, expository and dialogued lecture in order to contribute to the formation awareness on conservation of ophidian fauna. The visit was made in the "Breeding Fauna Silvestre Commercial - Site Xerimbabo". Finally for the analysis of reflection, regarding the issues discussed in the lecture, where the assessment was carried out through observation of individuals, field book records and audio and image recordings. Thus the results were arranged in categories, where the first part of the research presented predominantly with the fear category of such animals by the generalization that all are dangerous because they are venomous, another frequent category mentioned by the students was curiosity aroused by peculiarities presented by this group.

Author Biographies

Aline Wanessa Pinheiro Silva, Universidade do Estado do Pará

http://lattes.cnpq.br/9928587546231278

Sinaida Maria Vasconcelos de Castro, Universidade do Estado do Pará

http://lattes.cnpq.br/4767038085471534

Maria Dulcimar de Brito Silva, Universidade do Estado do Pará

 http://lattes.cnpq.br/9320177059898828

Paulo Henrique Gomes de castro, Centro Nacional de Primatas

 http://lattes.cnpq.br/8198702599220271

Janael Barbosa Costa, Universidade do Estado do Pará

http://lattes.cnpq.br/4763974652552500

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Published

2016-05-27

How to Cite

Silva, A. W. P., de Castro, S. M. V., Silva, M. D. de B., castro, P. H. G. de, & Costa, J. B. (2016). Concepts about snakes among young students of high school: a dialogue between science and culture. Scientia Plena, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.14808/sci.plena.2016.069925

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 6 (2016): June/Junho 2016

Section

Jornada de TCC do Campus XIX/UEPA

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