O ENSINO RELIGIOSO NA PERCEPÇÃO DE PROFISSIONAIS E AGENTES DA COMUNIDADE ESCOLAR DE TRÊS ESCOLAS DO MUNICÍPIO DO RIO DE JANEIRO

Abstract

This research focuses on a study about Religious Education in public education in the view of teaching professionals and agents of the school community in three municipal schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, considering the existence of distinct conceptions and criticisms of the discipline by the New School movement and researchers such as Roseli Fischmann and João Décio Passos. The following methodological procedure was used: analysis of the main objections to religious teaching and discussion of possible answers to these objections; consult the theories that aim to explain the formation of Religious Education, its conceptions and the motivations for its insertion in the school curriculum. Finally, a field survey was done through a questionnaire applied to teaching professionals and agents of the school community in Rio de Janeiro in three public schools, in order to know how they conceive of Religious Education. The initial theoretical basis of this research was built on the concepts of the Permanent National Forum of Religious Education (FONAPER) regarding the current concepts of what constitutes the discipline and its role in education and the work “The schooling process of the Religious Education in Brazil “by Sérgio Junqueira also regarding the new concepts of the discipline and its presence in the public school adding to this initial basis the criticisms of Roseli Fischmann that evaluates the impacts of Religious Education in the public school. Thus, the general objective of this research is to know how the teaching professionals and agents of the school community perceive Religious Teaching while the specific objective of this research seeks to understand what the objections to Religious Teaching are based, aiming at respond to these objections, taking into account what is known historically and presently as Religious Teaching. Therefore, one wonders how to respond to the objections that they make to Religious Education in public education and how the professionals of education and agents of the school community conceive the discipline? In the first chapter will be presented the objections to the presence of Religious Education in public education, the authors of these objections and what can be proposed in response to them. In the second chapter, it will be seen how Religious Education was formed, the conceptions assumed by the discipline throughout history and the repercussion of it in the public school according to the theorists whose works allowed the development of this research. Because it is a topic related to education, in the third chapter it is important to know how the teaching professionals understand the discipline, which generated the need for a field survey conducted through a questionnaire distributed in three public schools in the district of Bangu, Rio de Janeiro, in order to obtain this information.