A família e o Ensino Religioso no processo da educação integral dos estudantes do ensino fundamental nas escolas municipais de Camaçari

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the family and religious education in the process of integral education of elementary students in municipal schools in Camaçari, considering that the demands of the 21st century drive people to seek education beyond the intellectual dimension. It is also necessary to think about the physical, emotional, social dimensions and not least the religious dimension. The offer of religious education in public schools in elementary school classes is a reality presented to contribute to the demand for this comprehensive education that includes all these dimensions. The research carried out, used the method of exploratory nature; thus, it made the problem more explicit and deepened the ideas about the object studied. In the first phase, we used the indirect documentation technique, providing a bibliographic reference to talk about the legal bases that support religious teaching in public schools, and the opinions of the authors who defend and those who refute this teaching in public school institutions. Discussions were developed about the integral formation of the being and, mainly, how this can be achieved with the contribution of the family and the Religious Education offered in the school. Then, field research was carried out in three schools in the municipality of Camaçari, whose source of data collection was the application of a semi-structured interview with three teachers who teach the discipline Religious Education and also with the parents of the students, finally the application questionnaire with 8th grade students, who were present on the day of application. The results found in the aforementioned research reveal that the Religious Education curricular component is mandatorily offered in the schools of the Final Years, only in the 8th year, but without any type of specific or continued training for teachers who teach the discipline.