Entre o prescrito e o vivido: a pluralidade religiosa e a construção cultural do currículo escolar

Abstract

This research is qualitative in nature, of an exploratory and documentary bibliographic type. Its main purpose is to reflect on how Religious Education is taught in public schools, analyzing the extent to which the Official Curriculum Proposal is committed to the perspective of free religious expression through the teaching of the Religious Education curricular component, in a state that is constitutionally secular. It is also necessary to discuss the teacher's role and their function as an active mediator in public schools, to what extent their basic training is committed to the perspective of secular education, or whether the school environment has served religious proselytism, contradicting the Federal Constitution, the legal bases of national education, and human rights, which were conceived and developed with the aim of guaranteeing and ensuring the right to freedom and secular education, and the right to cultural and religious expression. With the aid of bibliographic sources, the theme was problematized, contextualized, and reflected upon based on the pedagogical trends that marked the development of Religious Education in Brazilian public schools, and how these conceptions of education are currently reflected in the consolidation of the secular state.