Representação social sobre fé e razão no espaço público educacional, na cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

This study in Religion Studies points out religion and philosophy as a knowledge possibility of social representation on faith and reason. In this perspective, it was studied the social representations that rise in the public educational space, of the relation of faith and reason in the dynamics of knowledge construction through pedagogical practices of teachers / learners. In order to do that, we approach the social-cultural, historical and philosophical dialogue based on Paul Tillich (1886 – 1965), whose critical-reflexive view is of extreme importance, René Descartes (1596 – 1650) with the Discourse of Method and Meditations, highlighting the importance of method for the scientific knowledge, and Emmanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) with the works Critique of Pure Reason and Religion in the Limits of Simple Reason, once they relate to the concepts investigated and contribute in this dialogue in a position which avoids dogmatism and fanaticism. The final reflections describe the study of social representations as fruitful for understanding the relation faith/reason, Religion/Science between the subject thought and the social production context in the public school spaces, in view of that he social construction in the heterogenic space rise from the subjective, intersubjective and transubjective spheres. In this sense, from the conception of the integral human being while a spiritual and biopsychosocial being who experiences and expresses his/her faith or his/her spirituality in the total experience of his/her life, we propose that the religions, with their faiths representations and religion practices be understood in the context of social productions of public school spaces, in the transdisciplinary of integral education, in order to educate the human being for living and coexist with each other in their diversity.