Abstract:
The training of teachers for the area of religious education is the object of this study.
Through documentary analysis, analyzed how the Religious Education is taught
today in municipal schools, through the new guidelines. The paper was prepared in
three chapters. The first chapter deals with the legislation that gave the structure of
religious education, spanning from Brazil colony until today. Providing elements to
build a proposal that enables the Religious Education. The second chapter shows the
training process for teachers of Religious Education and also the legislation for such
a procedure, explaining the difficulties to the religious education insertion in the
schools. Chapter three deals with the religious education in schools in the northern
area of Curitiba. It was analized in a documentary form the ASSINTEC and their
collaboration for the existence of Religious Education in schools. The survey
provided the knowledge of the existence of standards for teaching religion in public
schools contained in the pedagogical book: Ensino Religioso . The research reveals
that the training process teachers, urgently needs to be done, because in that way
will be passed to the students, the real meaning of citizenship, that will make
participating citizens in the destiny of this nation.