Using Shrimp Exoskeleton in the Student Community for Academic Development

In the municipality of Pueblo Viejo, Magdalena, some fishermen, traders and families involved in shrimp sales and consumption generate large amounts of waste, which becomes an environmental problem. One of these wastes is the shrimp’s exoskeleton. A qualitative study was performed following the guidelines of the Research as a Pedagogical Strategy model (IEP, by its acronym in Spanish), with the objective of raising awareness in the student community on the importance of research in order to make use of the shrimp exoskeleton and their academic development, using techniques such as participant observation and field journals. The unit of analysis is forty (40) students in the 11th grade at the San José School in Pueblo Viejo, Department of Magdalena. The results show that the students were able to raise awareness in the community on the possibility of using the exoskeleton’s proteins to make fish feed concentrate, thereby creating job opportunities for the community, while at the same time helping to reduce the pollution caused by these wastes.

• Autores: Robles, Johan; Angélica Mejía, Luz; Perea, Sofía; Hernández, Rosiris
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/2041
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/2041; https://doi.org/10.17981/ijmsor.03.01.09; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: shrimp; exoskeleton; animal feed processing; fish; exoesqueleto de camarón; elaboración de alimentos; peces
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2