Formação continuada de professores de ensino religioso: do conteúdo das ciências das religiões à prática na sala de aula de ER

Abstract

The focus of this thesis was to investigate whether the Continuous Training of Religious Teaching Teachers contributes with these teachers in the teaching of the subject: ‘function and values of the religious tradition’. It was selected the descriptive and bibliographical research, as well as, the social applied in accordance to the alternative mode of action research in a qualitative approach. The present research is structured into three segments: The first one presents an analysis of the extract of the taped interviews, that were individually taped, with each teacher under contract to work at the educational system offered by the City Hall in the city of João Pessoa, to act professionally in teaching the curriculum component of Religious Studies (RS). The same teachers take part at a teachers training modality. They have to be present at that course, which has been enhanced by the mentioned institution since 2006. In the second chapter, from the inferences about the Didactic Transposition of knowledge about Religious Studies to the curricular component of RS, it was presented the contributions of the theory of Didactic Transposition, according to Yves Chevallard, to the professional educational practice in RS. The third chapter confronts the results identified from the statements of the interviewed teachers to some of the most recent literary works related to RS and new perspectives of education for the twenty-first century. It also offers an analysis and the possibility of developing a teamwork with the prospect of setting up a national reference in terms of the relevant class of scientists, teachers and institutions involved in the research of RS and with epistemological foundation in Religious Studies so that experts are able to guide the curricular component of RS more satisfactorily, as well as, the training of a teacher to work on it.