Etnografia sobre o ensino religioso na Paraíba: um estudo no município de Patos/PB

• Autor(a) principal: Limeira, Maronildes Felix
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/19134
• topic: Ensino religioso; Ciências das Religiões; Diretrizes curriculares; Religious education; Religious Studies; Curricular guidelines; Enseñanza religiosa; Ciencias de las Religiones; Directrices del plan de estudios; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

The religious education in public schools still faces the dilemma of unlinking itself from a confessional education due to the State's secularism. The difficulty of dealing with this scholar subject is directly related to the epistemological aspect, the lack of knowledge about the real proposal of this subject due to the religious diversity, which interferes on the curricular guidelines. Hence, realize that the Religious Education’s problematics pass, firstly, through common questions: “what to teach?; “how to practice Religious Education in an adequate way?”. The Religious Education’s long journey in Brazil, the area empowerment process, the long pathway done by FONAPER are neither fully known nor sufficient to establish the Religious Studies’ “ideal curriculum”, specially if the regional diversities are considered. The “real curriculum” is the one that remains, having the proselytism as main characteristic and built through an amount of arrangement, conflicts and controversies, which involve many actors, inside and outside the scholar community, as it was showed by the accomplished ethnography. Facing this problem, our purpose was to investigate the Religious Education in Patos/PB, through a comparative analysis among the state, municipal and private school systems, aiming to offer, from Religious Studies’ analysis, a theoretical and pedagogical treatment which will subsidize knowledges of religious (or of different religious traditions) applicable to the scholar context on the religious plurality perspective. It is an ethnographic research with qualitative focus, with application of questionnaires and semi structured interviews, analyzed from the analysis of content (Bardin, 2010;2011). It was used the specific literature about the theme (Religious Education and Religious Studies). The ethnographic survey clearly showed that the faculty, due their lack of adequate training, sometimes follow the legislation and sometimes work with the available material, which is - most of the times - based on their own religion teaching experience. Because of that, there is an apparent contradiction of the ideal curriculum versus the real curriculum.