O ensino religioso e seu significado para adolescentes do ensino fundamental em uma escola pública municipal em Mirinzal/MA

Abstract

This paper deals with Religious Education and its significance for adolescents in Elementary School in a Municipal Public School in Mirinzal/MA. Initially, in the first chapter, concepts about the human development based on Piaget, Freud, Erik Erikson and James Fowler are presented with regard to the cognitive, psychosexual, psychosocial and faith spheres highlighting, shortly thereafter, the adolescent phase. It demonstrates the relation that Religious Education has in the process of the basic formation of the adolescent, as well as shows the changes that have occurred in its concept and in the curricular legality during the historical process. In the second chapter the importance of investing in specific training of teachers to work with this curricular component in the school is demonstrated. In the third chapter the results of the research carried out with the adolescents and the teachers through application of questionnaires is presented. The answered questionnaires furnished the lines of discussion for the development of the paper. The considerations and conclusions were presented regarding the relation between the school, the adolescent and Religious Education in the process of the social formation of the human being.