Contextualizações do Ensino Religioso na educação pública municipal de Juazeiro do Norte – Ceará: diálogos possíveis

Abstract

The aim of this articleis to contextualize the reality of Religious Education in Juazeiro do Norte city(CE), with a view to the perception of opening to religious dialogue in pedagogical practices. Subsidized by the Biographical Reflective Circle as a research device in the qualitative aspect,discussions between the pedagogical leaders of Religious Education fromthe Municipal Department of Education and the teachers of this curricular component have been undertaken. It has been evidenced that the opening to the knowledge of local and universal religious phenomena as a learning target can contribute to insert children and adolescents in the proposal of integral formation that aims at a better understanding of society and the world, the recognition of the freedom of religious and non-religiousexpression, and the promotion and defense of human dignity.