Ensino Religioso: espaço dos catecismos

This article is the result of a qualitative historical documentary research on the construction of the discipline of Religious Education from textbooks. One of the strategies to understand the formation of the curriculum components in the school, being an institution of modernity that is closely related to the bourgeois urban-industrial society project, refers to the reflection of how their characters are built. The school has played the role of form and shape individual and collective standards of rationalization and bureaucratization of society. Although other social institutions carry out the same task, it is the school’s role to convey legitimated knowledge, essential requirement to meet the social demands. The curriculum components collaborate in such mediation. Through Religious Education, among others, such curriculum components is really perceived, especially embodied by textbooks, which through their texts and exercises express knowledge to be transmitted . We understand that through textbooks is possible to verify the development of this discipline, especially in its origin when it was called religion class, and wished to consolidate the project of the hegemonic religion through their catechisms as a teaching tool for countless generations.Este artigo é resultado da pesquisa qualitativa histórica documental sobre a construção da disciplina do Ensino Religioso a partir dos livros didáticos. Uma das estratégias para compreender a formação dos componentes curriculares no espaço da escola, sendo uma instituição da modernidade que está intimamente relacionada ao projeto da sociedade burguesa urbano-industrial, é refletir como seus caracteres são construídos. A escola vem desempenhando a função de formar e conformar os sujeitos individuais e coletivos aos padrões de racionalização e burocratização dessa sociedade. Embora outras instituições sociais realizem a mesma tarefa, cabe à escola o papel de transmitir os saberes legitimados, fundamental para atender às demandas sociais. Os componentes curriculares colaboram nesta mediação e, dentre outros, é no Ensino Religioso que se percebe concretizado especialmente pelos livros didáticos, que por meio de seus textos e exercícios expressam saberes a serem transmitidos. Compreende-se que por meio dos livros didáticos é possível verificar o desenvolvimento desta disciplina, especialmente em sua origem quando era denominada aula de religião, e que pretendia consolidar o projeto de uma religião hegemônica do país, através de seus catecismos como instrumento de ensino de inúmeras gerações. Palavras-Chave: Ensino Religioso. Livro Didático. Catecismo. Abstract This article is the result of a qualitative historical documentary research on the construction of the discipline of Religious Education from textbooks. One of the strategies to understand the formation of the curriculum components in the school, being an institution of modernity that is closely related to the bourgeois urban-industrial society project, refers to the reflection of how their characters are built. The school has played the role of form and shape individual and collective standards of rationalization and bureaucratization of society. Although other social institutions carry out the same task, it is the school’s role to convey legitimated knowledge, essential requirement to meet the social demands. The curriculum components collaborate in such mediation. Through Religious Education, among others, such curriculum components is really perceived, especially embodied by textbooks, which through their texts and exercises express knowledge to be transmitted . We understand that through textbooks is possible to verify the development of this discipline, especially in its origin when it was called religion class, and wished to consolidate the project of the hegemonic religion through their catechisms as a teaching tool for countless generations. Keywords: Religious Education. Textbook. Catechism.