Olhinhos de gato: uma análise de conteúdo da obra de Cecília Meireles sob o olhar do ensino religioso

Abstract

The present work has as objective to deal with the literary text and its use in the classroom of Religious Education, recommended by the Research Line: Education and Religion of the Master of Science of Religions of the Federal University of Paraíba. It begins with the discussion of the term religion and the epistemological question of the Sciences of Religions, in addition to the discussion of Religious Education in the context of the classroom of Elementary Education I. The book of Cecilia Meireles, Olhinhos de Gato, published in Brazil in 1983, brings an autobiographical work, destined to the infanto-juvenile public adopted in the paradidatic reading of the classroom in the disciplines directed to the teaching of the Portuguese language, mainly in the decade of its publication, like a resource that goes to show the prose of an author best known for his poetics. From a qualitative approach, we opted for Laurence Bardin's (2002) content analysis to verify the pedagogical interfaces between this literary work and the study of religions in school. The importance of this work lies in valuing diversity and transdisciplinarity in religious teaching in its classroom practice, which runs counter to the formatted limits of the textbook, often reduced to confessional and / or proselytizing material. The text was divided in three parts, initially dealing with the epistemological discussion of the area in view of its translation to Religious Education, of the panorama and methodology of the research. In the second part the discussion of the use of literary texts is made and, finally, the third part is about the work and its author, pointing out keys of interpretation and use to dynamize the classroom of the Religious Teaching.