ENSINO RELIGIOSO NAS ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS MUNICIPAIS DE JUAZEIRO DO NORTE-CE: INTERFACE ENTRE A LEGISLAÇÃO E A PRÁTICA

Abstract

This research had an objective to observe the interface between the legislation and the practice of Religious Teaching in the town of Juazeiro do Norte. The research was of bibliographic imprint and field. The first, it started from the analysis of the National Laws: Federal Constitutions, Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education - LDB; as well as the additional documents: National Curriculum Parameters for the Religious Education - PCNER and the National Curriculum Common Basis - BNCC that regulate the subject in educational institutions. Since the colonial period, when the subject is the Religious Teaching in public institutions, some gaps and uncertainties are observed; the legal omissions to blame the state and municipal spheres regarding the admission of teachers and the selection of content; the historical tension between the binomial of Church and State, their influences and their interests around the discipline in public schools. It had as theoretical steps that deals with the three models of Religious Teaching; Saviani who uses the category of active resistance of the Catholic Church; Bourdieu and Passeron describe the mechanisms by which the symbolic violence is exercised by the school institution and its agents that generally are indifferent, contributing to legitimize it and play it socially; Della Cava has mapped the tumultuous history of Juazeiro do Norte, composing the extraordinary portrait of the patriarch of the Cariri: padre Cicero Romão Batista, affectionately it is called by the devotees of “Padim Ciço”, who through alleged miracle, it was raised around the priest a religious movement popular in the municipality which affects up to the present day. The second, it was performed through the application of questionnaires to teachers of Religious Teaching of Juazeiro do Norte, structured and associated questions about the teaching practice, the selection of content, the academic training and the continuing education, the religious diversity and the influence of the religiosity of the teacher in the scope of schools. It was a descriptive exploratory research; it has used a qualitative approach. For the development of research, it based on the legislation and teaching practice, as evidenced from the analysis of questionnaires and directed to the teachers of municipal public schools of Juazeiro do Norte. The study reveals that the Religious Teaching in the municipality area is passing by developments, it has already noticed some formations, however, some aspects should be observed with more attention: The (not) teacher’s formation is one of them, and it is believed the main, because it comes from the scientific bias and I is not proselytizing of the object of religious study, even in the capitals of the faith, as is the case of Juazeiro do Norte.