Variabilidade conceitual de termos botânicos em livros do ensino superior: volume 1

Abstract

This book is the result of the efforts of the authors who, through their experiences as teachers and students, planted a small seed that germinated. The small plant developed and matured, generating the desire to raise questions about the subject.It is not intended to be a teaching guide or a glossary of botanical terms, nor to establish what constitutes an appropriate term. It simply aims to present the great variability of concepts found in Botany books used in Higher Education, in Biological Sciences courses and related areas.The objective of this small copy is to expose the anguish that teachers, researchers and students feel when faced with all this diversity, which often generates several questions in classes, causing confusion between the different disciplines within Botany, such as Morphology, Systematics, Physiology and many others that are taught in the various Biological Sciences courses and related areas. There is no intention to disparage any of the works cited here, and it is hoped that the authors of these works do not see this book as a criticism or any way of dishonoring or diminishing the recognized excellence of their work. Far from it, all the sources mentioned here were selected only because they are used by the best universities in Brazil, which in itself denotes their primacy.As the main purpose of this book, the aim was to compare the information from the different sources and provoke scholars in the area to reflect on this issue and, in doing so, encourage everyone to abandon their usual behavior of convenience and somehow seek ways to begin to reach a common understanding.This first volume presents various terms for all parts of the plant body, in a random manner. The intention is to expand this series by producing new separate volumes, each with terms for each part of the plant, for more direct access to the information. In this way, the information can be accessed more directly.