Abstract:
This is a qualitative research that sought to analyze how and from what the teachers
who work in the early years of elementary school in Florianópolis, all duly qualified
professionals with a degree in Pedagogy, develop their teaching practices in
Religious Education as a school subject. The concern that generated the
theme/problem arises in our childhood and builds up through our academic
trajectory, as a teacher and researcher. An option was made for the methodological
trajectory of an action research: sixteen teachers took part of the research who
guided the process for the observation at the schools, the interview questions, the
workshops and the theoretical constructions of this exercise in researching/sharing.
The need to rethink the beginning and continual training of teachers of initial
elementary school, the insertion of religious education in the school teaching projects
as a commitment of all involved professionals and the search for interdisciplinary
teaching practices in religious education, are some of the reflections resulting from
this research. It can be understood that this study provides for a reflection of
Religious Education as an academic component of the elementary school curriculum
and contributes to the voices that are still fighting for life and school in a perspective
that makes religious education neither an attachment nor an appendix, but a
possibility to produce and take possession of knowledge in the construction of a
more beautiful and fair world.
