A CONTRIBUIÇÃO DO ENSINO RELIGIOSO NA CONSTRUÇÃO SIMÉTRICA E EPISTEMOLÓGICA DO CIDADÃO

Abstract

The present work investigated the importance of Religious Education in an asymmetrical and epistemological construction, through bibliographical research and field research, having as subject of the investigation the students, professor of the discipline and the director of the Adventist school, located in the city of Maceió, State of Alagoas . As a methodological resource, a questionnaire was applied to these subjects; Through the answers, we carried out an analysis about the importance of Religious Education in the citizens' formation of the students. In order for the research to achieve its expected success, it was necessary to carry out a retrospective of Religious Education in Brazil, looking for, in its origin, the path that was being drawn by it, as well as the directions and challenges it faced; To take a course to show the challenge of religious multiculturalism in schools, in order to show the importance of Religious Education in the construction of citizenship and how it can symmetrically and epistemologically contribute to the construction of citizenship, based on the conceptions of Habermas, João Passos, Sergio Junqueira and others; Analysis of data from field research at the Adventist College, with the aim of ascertaining whether the discipline of Religious Education contributes, in fact, to the formation of this student for citizenship. As a result of the research, we show that, even with its pedagogical and methodological deficiencies, the Adventist school has contributed directly or indirectly to the formation of its students.