Concepções de finalidades educativas escolares na perspectiva de líderes religiosos evangélicos neopentecostais

Abstract

This research addresses and discusses the conceptions of educational purposes of school education in the perception of neo-Pentecostal evangelical religious leaders, analyzing aspects of the repercussion of these purposes in the school system, especially in religious education. The research is linked to the Research Theories of Education and Pedagogical Processes Research Line of the Graduate Program in Education at PUC Goiás. The theme is part of the problem that involves the formulation of school educational purposes in the face of ideological, political and cultural interests, and its relationship with the elaboration of educational policies and the functioning of schools. Bibliographic research and field research were carried out. The study of educational purposes, in its political, ideological and pedagogical aspects, was supported by authors such as Lenoir, Evangelista, Libâneo, among others.Regarding the discourse of neo-Pentecostal evangelical institutions, we turn to Mariano, Figueiredo and Gruen, among other authors. The field research, in view of the case study, consisted of the application of online questionnaires to neo-Pentecostal religious leaders active in Goiânia, State of Goiás, and in cities in its metropolitan region, during the 2nd semester of 2019, with aimed at investigating their conceptions of school educational purposes. The literature review pointed to convergences between the currently hegemonic educational purposes supported by international organizations of a neoliberal nature and the educational, curricular and operational policies underway in the Brazilian school system. Likewise, a strong relationship was found between the intentions of these organizations and some religious denominations, including the neoPentecostal. The analysis of the answers obtained in the questionnaires pointed out, in turn, convergences between the same hegemonic educational purposes and the conceptions of educational purposes of the interviewed religious leaders, anchored in historical and religious narratives regarding the conservative / neoconservative social function of schooling, which includes the formation of citizenship, and moral formation from an ideological, ethical and pious basis. We found that such narratives focus on the conceptualization of the educational purposes of the school system and on formulations of values in relation to religious education in schools