Ensino religioso no ensino médio: uma análise sobre a importância da laicidade do estado e sua repercussão na disciplina de ensino religioso

Abstract

Despite being a secular state, Brazil has instituted the obligation of Religious Education in public elementary schools. This study has as its theme religious education in high school, and seeks to prove the secular character of the discipline, differentiating it from religion classes, evaluating whether it meets the pluralist and interreligious ideal defined by the main authors involved in the implementation of the discipline. Through a bibliographic search, the study seeks to analyze the history of Religious Education in Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul, discuss the importance of the secularity of the State and its repercussion in the discipline of Religious Education and analyze the contents worked and the methodologies employed in religious teaching classes. At the end of the study, it was found that Religious Education, through the content developed, will trigger dialogue as a reality that is established from the words of different people. In the State of Rio Grande in the South, the contents of the Religious Education curricular component are determined by the school, according to its pedagogical project, observing the national curricular guidelines and based on curricular parameters that will be established under the coordination of the Secretariat of Education. The principle of secularism removes religion from the rule of the State and gives all citizens the right to respect whether or not they have a certain religious conviction, being able to freely profess it within the limits of the law. In Religious Education, the teacher must be able to welcome students and use their experiences, so that they can put aside any and all prejudice and give themselves the opportunity to know what is different.