A GESTÃO ESCOLAR FRENTE AO DESAFIO EM OFERTAR O COMPONENTE CURRICULAR ENSINO RELIGIOSO NA ESCOLA PÚBLICA

Abstract

This research studies the relation between school management and religious education and the challenge regarding about the role of school management offering religious education in public schools. The aim of this research was to promote the theoretical study about the school management and the process of pedagogical coordination appropriation to understand the dialogue importance between management and teachers to offer religious education in public schools. The study targeted to present reflections about the theme, showing that the school management is directly related to the problems religious education faces at the educational context, as the confessional and proselytize teaching practice and the absence of educational politics in favor of religious diversity. Therefore, the research problem is in what way the school management could contribute to offer religious education in public schools? Though, to answer this question the research was structured on four thematic bases – Education and teaching, Religious education, School management and Curriculum. Based on these thematic bases the theories of Paulo Freire, Dermeval Saviani, Heloisa Luck, José Carlos Libâneo, Sérgio Rogério Azevedo Junqueira, João Décio Passos and Antônio Flávio Moreira are the theoretical methodology of this research. The research has three chapters; the first chapter discussed the Education and teaching, approaching their concepts in a way that it could explain the religious education fundamental importance as a specific subject, it showed the religious education concepts, bringing the concepts of religion, religiosity, spirituality an religious education, as well as a brief historical of religion and religious education inside educational context in the world and in Brazil. Thus, it showed too the school function and its social and transformational concept and its evolution in Brazil and by the conceptual relation between education and school shows that religious education can be offered in Brazilian public schools as it has a educational function. At the second chapter, it was the Brazilian school management path with its mainly concepts, definitions and the historical process besides presenting the democratically school management in its context and the school as a natural democratic organization. At this chapter, it was discussed curriculum, its historical context and theories to understand how to structure it and to realize that curriculum goes beyond the set of school subjects to graduate a student. At the third chapter, it was analyzed the pedagogical management inside the school and the fundamental role of manager as a leader as well as the pedagogical coordination as a space for teachers debate and dialogue where the coordinator would be the agent between knowledge and educational practice at the religious education subject, the introduction of religious education on the scholar context and to determine definitively its identity. The methodology applied to develop this study was the bibliographic research. Finally, the conclusion of this research is that religious education at public school depends on a good school management mainly to accomplish the rights of all inside of school and legislation.