O ENSINO RELIGIOSO MINISTRADO NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL DAS ESCOLAS MUNICIPAIS DO MUNICÍPIO DE CARIACICA (ES)

Abstract

Religious education is a discipline of Elementary Education, so that the challenge of inserting it in the school context is born. It is, in fact, to overcome the traditional “class” of Religion, which was much more catechesis and indoctrination, with the danger of intolerance towards other creeds and open the prospect of true teaching. To speak of religious teaching in public schools, runs up against the notion of Lay State, and brings out diverse debates and opinions. It is possible to think that the public state can better adapt to the demands of modern society when it is disassociated from religious discourses. Thus, it was delimited as a general objective to analyze the discipline Religious Teaching in the municipal education system of Cariacica-ES and its applicability in Elementary School. Among the specific objectives are: to investigate how the teaching of Religious Education in the municipal network of Cariacica-ES occurs; to analyze the representations of the discipline Religious Teaching in the municipal schools and their relation with the practice of the religion in the school; to verify the theoretical context and the pedagogical practice of the Teachers of Religious Teaching; analyze the objectives of the Curriculum Proposal for Religious Education in the Cariacica-ES Municipal Education Network. The study is relevant because it shows some dimensions of the definition and implementation of the discipline of religious education in the public schools of Cariacica-ES. The Religious Education has within the current teaching and the fact of having been the object of numerous critics and debates. It begins with more general reflections that take into account the notion of laity and the national milestones for religious education and culminates in the more detailed study regarding the pedagogical formation of the teacher of the religious teaching subject in the municipal education system of Cariacica-ES and the vision of the students of the network in relation to this discipline. Due to the nature of the present proposal, methodological use will be made of a bibliographic review to promote a descriptive study based on scientific articles, complete works and other scientific-academic productions that prove useful and pertinent to screen research. In this way the study allowed to promote a solid conceptualization, after which a description of indispensable aspects to the study of religious teaching will be given, later, will be described the religious teaching in the schools of the Cariacica municipality.