MULTICULTURALISMO E ENSINO RELIGIOSO ESCOLAR PÚBLICO: UM ESTUDO DA GESTÃO DA DIVERSIDADE NA SALA DE AULA

Abstract

This present dissertation intends to introduce the reader into the identity dimensions of the curriculum. Seeking to work on some questions related to multiple cultures, the central theme of educational discutions in contemporaneity. The complexity of the relationships, tensions and conflicts in today's society, brings us to research in a deeper way the possibilities of actions from the teachers to incorporate the plural identities, policies and curriculum practices in the enviromental education. Brazil is a country with a rich ethnic diversity, cultural, religious and immigrant. Anyhow, in the course of our history, there has been prejudices, relationships with discriminations and social exclusion that prevent many Brazilians to have a full experience of plural, critical and participatory citizenship. Thus, we emphasize that the discipline of Religious Education, taught from the conception of multiple cultures can contribute to an education that seeks respect for differences. This dissertation is divided into three parts: the first provides the reader to the historycity of the discipline of Religious Education in Brazil, as well as the emergence of laws and curriculum parameters and ends describing the Religious Education in the state of Espírito Santo. The second part describes the conceptions, and cares to focus on the cricital theories highlighting the multiculturalism concept. The last part is the culmination of research, explaining the proposition to the junction between Multicultural Education and the Dialogue among Religions, this chapter we will discuss about the importance of managing difference in the classroom, Multiculturalism and Religion, Multiculturality and the Religious Diversity in the School.