A Festa da Penha e as Ciências das Religiões: estudo de caso na unidade municipal de educação infantil (UMEI) Pedro Pandolfi, Vila Velha - ES

Abstract

The Festa da Penha and the Sciences of Religions: a case study at (UMEI) Pedro Pandolfi, Vila Velha-ES is the research theme that we propose in this study, with the aim of understanding what children know about religious phenomena intrinsic to this religious event. The methodological approach consists of a documentary study followed by a case study in which children will have the opportunity to express their experiences through drawings and their reports. Since it is common, when returning to school, in the weeks after the Festa da Penha, for children to be in the expectation of reporting their experiences with that festival and, most of the time, the teachers are unable to hear the that they have to say about what they experienced, whether out of fear or religious prejudice, and end up denying the child's right of subjectivity to learn about religious freedom. Thus, it is important to clarify that the approach to religion with children will be from the perspective of Sciences of Religions, and that this research presents a project on children's literature and Festa da Penha.