ASPECTOS DA GESTÃO DEMOCRÁTICA NA EDUCAÇÃO E O ENSINO RELIGIOSO NA ATUALIDADE

Abstract

The present study has as its object Religious Education (RE) as a segment of contemporary Education influenced by both traditional forces and contemporary advents, such as the yearnings for freedom and respect for diversity. The problem is to answer what are the implications of democratic management in the development of Religious Education in public schools? It is known, therefore, that as a discipline, Religious Education has undergone several transformations, following the formation of Brazilian society and in recent years it has been able to receive a better treatment in the light of the Sciences of Religions and have received status as an area of knowledge in the National Base Curricular Common, consolidated its degree of importance in the construction of citizenship. That said, it was delimited as objectives: to describe about democratic management in the face of the challenges of the development of RE in public schools today; understand the contribution of democratic management as an educational process in municipal public education; demonstrate how the subject RE can contribute to the model of democratic management in secular public schools; and to present the importance of RE as an indispensable area of knowledge for the maintenance of democratic management. To answer them, the contributions of Moura, Rodrigues, Figueiredo, Junqueira, Zimmermann, as well as Bonavides and Amaral, among others, which cover the relationship between state and church, education and religion, were essential for the expansion of the theme. The methodological course was that of bibliographic and descriptive research, whose content analysis took place in order to respond to predetermined objectives. In the meantime, it can be concluded that it is noticeable that many professionals and families still do not understand that there is an objective sense imposed to develop the curricular component of Religious Education, which proposes to develop knowledge about different religions, beliefs and about the cultures of the peoples who profess it through the tangible language with which they manifest their truths. What makes it relevant that democratic school management find legal and practical support for the insertion of Religious Education of a secular character, in order to serve, using its theoretical and practical instruments, as a source to allow effective religious inclusion without losing the alignment parameters with respect to diversity.