ENSINO RELIGIOSO E LAICIDADE: O QUE PENSAM SOBRE O ASSUNTO OS/AS ESTUDANTES DA ESCOLA UMEF ANTÔNIA MALBAR EM VILA VELHA-ES

Abstract

The synthesis of the Professional Master's dissertation in Religious Sciences is presented, whose title is: Religious Education and Secularity: what do students of the UMEF Antônia Malbar school in Vila Velha-ES, think about the subject, whose central question is to answer : what do students think about Religious Education classes in the 3rd and 4th year classes of Elementary School at UMEF Antônia Malbar, in the academic period from 2021 to 2022? In this way, it is intended to understand what the students of the UMEF Antônia Malbar , located in the municipality of Vila Velha-ES, think about the Religious Education classes and the practice applied in the classroom with regard to secularism, through the paths of Religious Education in the history of education, seeking to respond through bibliographical survey and reports of students' experiences, based on authors such as: Emerson Silveira, Rubens Alves, Demerval Saviani, Sérgio Junqueira and Marilena Chauí, who offer contributions on the curriculum of education and the curriculum of Religious Education, as well as the concepts of secularism, culture and multiculturalism, underlie the theoretical framework of this study, which was Organized into three brief chapters. It provides an opportunity to build a work that reflects the beauty of working with qualitative data that underlie the experiences that students bring with them through their speeches and records. In this way, it is concluded, articulating the students' thinking in relation to the themes that involve Religious Education at school, that, despite the turnover of teachers and the challenges in the classroom, UMEF Antônia Malbar has sought to develop dialogic and reflective practices with the students, working on their criticality and autonomy, having in the profile of the Religious Education teacher the perspective of multiculturalism, respecting the student's perspective in relation to Religious Education at school.