Ensino Religioso e Educação Infantil: a presença da religião em ações docentes no Centro Municipal de Educação Infantil Sueli Larrubia Muniz no município de Serra – ES

Abstract

The purpose of this master's degree dissertation is to dialogically analyze the speech of five teachers from the Sueli Larrubia Muniz Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education, in the municipality of Serra, Espírito Santo, regarding their approaches to the manifestations of religiosity brought by students in the daily life of the classroom. To achieve this objective, an exploratory field research was conducted, with data collection from semi-structured interviews and qualitative analysis of the results obtained, using as reference the concept of discourse from the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. The structure to develop this dissertation has three chapters. The first addresses the initial training in pedagogy and the religiosity evidenced in the speech and play of early childhood education students. The second discusses proselytism, pointing out whether, in their work, teachers teach students respect and tolerance in relation to religious diversity. The third chapter brings the applied methodology and concepts of Bakhtin's dialogism as a starting point for the analysis of the results obtained. The conclusion of this dissertation is that CMEI teachers have knowledge about Brazilian culture and religious diversity, the importance of maintaining secularism in the educational space and not practicing proselytism when, eventually, their students expose religious manifestations brought from home or in some commemorative dates. Despite this understanding, in their statements it is noticeable the concern not to deepen the dialogue on the relationship between the first stage Early Childhood Education and the curricular component Religious Education.