ENSINO RELIGIOSO – DO PRESCRITO AO REGISTRADO: UM ESTUDO DE DIÁRIOS DE PROFESSORES VITÓRIA

Abstract

The aim of this work is to study the way, the pedagogical practice of the school subject “Religious Teaching” is carried out since 1998, in Nova Venecia County, in the north of Espirito Santo, based on the analysis of the records registered by the teachers in their school record books. The object of this study can be delimited as an examination of the epistemological perspectives evidenced in the registers made by the teachers of the public schools in Espirito Santo. This work is divided into two parts: the prescriptions – in which the County and State curriculum and legislation related to Religious Teaching are analyzed – comprise two chapters: the first one dealing with the actual legislation and the second one with the Religious Teaching models, which will be taken as the base to analyze the collected data; and the practices – in which the contents registered in the teacher‟s school record books of the final periods of the Basic Education in five schools in Nova Venecia during the period of 1998 to 2013 were analyzed -, cover the third and fourth chapter, each one of them analyzing a cycle of school record books, 1998 up to 2001 and 2010 up to 2013.The research was based on the models of the Religious Teaching proposed by João Décio Passos. The basic assumption that guided this work is that the recordings carried out by the teachers in their school record books and supervised by the pedagogical team of the schools constitute historical documents that allow an analysis of the effective practice of the Religious Teaching in the classrooms. The results indicate a change in the paradigm in the Religious Teaching over the years, in such a way that the pedagogical practice, within the analyzed cutting, goes from a confessional perspective, non-religious, to a theological and multi-religious model.