Abstract:
The current context of the Religious Education in Vitória/ES. Through document
analysis, this research verified the feasibility and current status of Religious
Education today in public schools through the new guidelines. The work was
prepared in three chapters. The first chapter deals with the legislation that gave the
structure of Religious Education, spanning from Brazil Colonial 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 procedure, explaining the difficulties to the Religious Education in
school in the city of Vitória/ES. The third chapter highlights the curriculum that is
offered to schools and reports the role of FONAPER and also CONERES. The
research reveals knowledge of the existence of standards for Religious Education in
public schools and that the teachers training process needs, as an emergency, to be
feasible and/or made available to professionals who want to work in this discipline.
