The Ash Soap making in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: from the status of ethnoscience to its mediation for the classroom using an ethnographic hypermedia system
The ash soap making process developed by women from the interior of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is described and analyzed in order to typify it as ethnoscience. Some of the major conceptions related to folk knowledge, ethnoscience and the chemistry of saponification are presented in order to...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2010-11-01
|
| Series: | Investigações em Ensino de Ciências |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID241/v15_n2_a2010.pdf |