PROPOSTA PEDAGÓGICA PARA O ENSINO RELIGIOSO DE UMA ESCOLA MUNICIPAL DE FORTALEZA - CE

Abstract

The present study aims to develop a plan for the pedagogical work of the Religious Education component for a municipal school in Fortaleza-CE, considering that the curricular component does not have a specific teacher to teach classes. The work emphasizes the importance of Religious Education as an area and curricular component of school education, in addition to presenting the foundations for humanizing and reflective Religious Education. To achieve understanding and clarification on the themes, a bibliographic review was used, whose contributions from Sérgio Rogério Azevedo Junqueira, Dermeval Saviani and Nathália Ferreira de Souza Martins were essential in understanding the pedagogical contextualization, Religious Education and Humanizing and Reflective Religious Teaching, in addition to approach the documentary research model with the Political Pedagogical Project of a public school in Fortaleza-CE, the Pedagogical Guidelines and the National Common Curricular Base as guiding documents. The process made it possible to identify the potentialities and weaknesses that form the school context through the experience of understanding Religious Education as an area of knowledge and as a curricular component of Elementary Education. Among the potentialities, the following stand out: the offering of the subject in weekly classes, the availability of professionals, execution of planning moments, the motivation of students, and the challenges: the conduction of these classes by non-specialist teachers, absence of an approach to religious phenomena and the definition of content in accordance with the determination of the teachers’ program content. Based on this analysis, we propose a humanizing and reflective approach to Religious Education that understands the organization of the school as a place for the promotion of organized knowledge, or educational instruction, from the perspective of the cultural and social context that surrounds it, with the suggestion of a pedagogical proposal for the Religious Education curricular component for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of Elementary School I. Humanizing Religious Education allows students, who are in training, the basic understanding that human phenomena are composed, also, of religious phenomena and that, through this, it is possible for society to develop in a respectable, tolerant, ethical and harmonious way.