UM OLHAR SOBRE A PRÁTICA DA RELIGIOSIDADE EM DUAS ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS EM VILA VELHA (ES): DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL AO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the students' religious expressions, their relationship with the School's Political Project and the Christian commemorative dates, both in Infant Education and Elementary Education, in religious festivals or in Religious Education classes. This work also aims to point out ways to respect the plurality of religions in the school environments of the Vila Velha municipality, so that all the actors in the school community can together resignify the idea of Brazil as a plural country, a challenge that constitutes the reason for the treatment of religion at school. Thus, the problem question that will be answered through the study proposed here is: how can it be guaranteed to the student / expression of his / her religiosity, both in Infant Education and Elementary Education, in religious festivals, and in teaching classes Religious. In Infantile Education, children are inserted into religious traditions during school life, starting from the parties, usually Christian, and in Elementary School, from Religious Teaching. The forms of expressions of religiosity point to a celebration, a meeting between children who reciprocally share the festivities, rites and culminations of events. The participation or not of the children in these events in the school due to the school calendar sometimes is impeded by the religious vision of the relatives or by religious pedagogical practices that have naturalized like symbolic violence during many years in the school routine. The theoretical basis has the contributions of Rubem Alves, Vygotsky, Carlos Rodrigues Brandão and Pierre Bourdieu. The religiosity inherent to the human being brings elements of beliefs or religious traditions essential to knowledge by enabling and favoring a democratic pedagogical space for all, contemplating the religious plurality of the school environment and, above all, a welcoming look that promotes quality education , citizen and inclusive. The methodology was the field research, elaborated during five months, with the application of questionnaires delivered by the researcher to the teachers in two public schools located in Vila Velha (ES). This research, in the first part, succinctly identifies the profile of the respondents, using the statistical technique of tabulation and data analysis. For the description, data were collected from the questionnaires, obtaining a universe of 16 UMEI respondents and 38 UMEF respondents. The second part is presented by graphs, in the form of figures. The analysis was qualitative and quantitative, interpreting the thinking of the aforementioned authors and comparing what they say with the data collected in the field. Final assessments were obtained with Frank Usarski, with his presentation of a Science of Religion committed to neutrality against the object of study. It is concluded, therefore, that the school internalize the dialogue, as a tool for building harmony in an educational action capable of promoting, with the other, mutual respect, joining the family in awareness of knowledge of the vast religious diversity in the country.