Narrativas de uma professora de Ensino Religioso Afro em escolas do município do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This work originated in Master's research developed at the Graduate Program in Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro - proped / UERJ - whose objective was to understand the subject "Religious Education African", their intentionality and impacted the school community. The religious education offered in municipal schools of Rio de Janeiro is given confessional form with the following faiths: Catholic, Evangelical and African. This work was developed based on the experience of a teacher of African Religious Education, which was child yard and lived prejudices in their networks at school. was established as a research field the municipal schools that had a chance to take the discipline since it was approved in public tender. This teacher also author of the dissertation, had the challenge of working discipline with students and students who declared themselves followers of African religions in school. Their students were the partners of the research. What is Religious Education Afro, its causes and consequences? That was the main question of the study. To answer the question and to achieve the objective of the research interviews were conducted, conversations, varied activities with pupils and students, including the "interview of play", as well as analysis of documents and participation in teacher training activities, such as meetings in schools and the Municipal Department of Education. The research findings have raised questions about the relevance of the subject, as opposed to the principles of secularism in public education in Brazil. The survey results also allowed reflections and point to the proposal for full implementation, in all disciplines of Federal Law 10.639 / 03, approved in March 2003 and mandating the teaching of history and African culture and Afro-Brazilian in primary schools and secondary and is not therefore required a discipline aside for this purpose