O ENSINO RELIGIOSO COMO PARTE INTEGRANTE DA FORMAÇÃO DO PEDAGOGO A SERVIÇO DA FORMAÇÃO DO CIDADÃO BRASILEIRO.

Abstract

The Brazilian education, whose birth is admittedly Catholic, even with the enactment of the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education - LDB, 1996 (20/12/96), failed to become, in fact secular in order great pressure from religious groups, which decided to maintain (Article 33), religious Education as a State obligation for Kindergarten and Elementary Education, being, however, optional for students. Religious Education taught in public schools makes clear that teachers in many cases are not prepared to take the teaching of this discipline because of lack of knowledge or do these classes, catechesis of interest religion they profess. This may be linked to the fact that in teaching courses there is no discipline to train teachers able to act in religious education discipline. On the one hand, the Faculty of Education has expanded the role of the teacher in various social fields; regular schools, hospitals, museums, prisons and other, on the other does not prepare them to take the teaching of Religious Education. The Faculty of Education at the Open School in Brazil - ESAB, which was the basis for this research, showed clearly that the teacher leaves the higher education unprepared to teach the discipline in the early grades of basic education. This deficiency can be filled with the reformulation of the pedagogical course proposal to include discipline that enables educators to work with the social history of religions in its various manifestations in the country. Seeking fill the gap, the final chapter of this study, propose objectively examples that can be used by teachers for the religious education lessons are more dynamic, cheerful and less catechetical, across indications parties of the great religions and singing / music popular translating this religious diversity in the country.