The place of pharmacognosy in the pharmaceutical education: epistemological issues and their implications for teaching

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

Silva, Wellington Barros da¹  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brasil¹ 

关键词: Pharmaceutical education;    pharmacognosy;    epistemology.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-695X2010000200025

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Farmacognosia

【 摘 要 】

This paper proposes the discussion of epistemological issues concerning the teaching of pharmacognosy and its role in training and ownership of a scientific culture among students of the courses of Pharmacy, in addition to the potential contribution of the discipline for the establishment of a new model of professional practice. It argues that there is a close link between the crisis of professional identity of Pharmacy and epistemological inconsistencies in the disciplinary matrix of pharmacognosy, which from a teaching point of view it involves obstacles to the process of teaching and learning the discipline. Moreover, the experimental nature of pharmacognosy includes a conception of science and the object of knowledge that influences the selection of content and may constitute obstacles in mediation and appropriation of knowledge and demands for the pharmacy practice.

【 授权许可】

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