O PAPEL DA GESTÃO ESCOLAR DIANTE DO DESAFIO DE OFERTAR A DISCIPLINA ENSINO RELIGIOSO DE CARÁTER LAICO

Abstract

Religious Education as part of this study is directly linked to the process of democratization of the school and there are different paths to follow. However, in the midst of this journey there are essential aspects, demarcators of actions limited to the full reach of a democratic school that cannot be disregarded. The first of these is the management style. In this aspect, the emerging need for dialogue between the two major parties involved – manager and school community – is always latent, having to recognize, however, that both coexist with the difficulty of taking the first step. The objective is to analyze how School Management happens from the offer of Religious Education in public schools in relation to the task of constituting and managing democratically characterized teaching spaces in the face of the resumption of religious education from the perspective of the secular State. As specific objectives to verify the characteristics of democratic management in public schools of a secular character; describe about the interface between religion and school from Religious Education; and highlight the possibilities of democratic management with Religious Education as an instrument to guarantee the secular school. The methodological course chosen was the bibliographic research, in which the contributions of Araújo, Cury, Chiavenato, Libâneo, Junqueira, Morin, Paro, Passos, Setton, among other renowned researchers in the area of Religious Education, Administration, Secularism, religion and school management , were indispensable. It can be concluded that the contents, as well as the reflections of the Religious Education component, need to be diversified and follow the model proposed by the Sciences of Religions, which bases and delimits it from the scientific assumptions of the religious phenomenon to students, and that the management democracy emerges as a way out to guarantee the provision of the discipline of Religious Education of a secular character in public schools. In this sense, it can be said that democratic management is an instrument of pedagogical practice in the face of the challenge of guaranteeing the secular character of the public school, which emerges the theme for further studies, based on the assumption that the prevention of intolerance is an exercise education system.