Educação infantil e espiritualidade: por uma abordagem multidimensional da infância.

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Figueirêdo, Adriana Guilherme Dias da Silva
• Orientador(a): Silva, Drance Elias da
• Banca de defesa: Pessoa, Silvério Leal, Chaves, José Afonso, Souza, José Roberto, Rodrigues, Cibele Maria Lima
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Doutorado em Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Departamento de Pós-Graduação
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teses; Espiritualidade; Ensino religioso de crianças; Infância; Educação de crianças - Aspectos religiosos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Theses; Spirituality; Children's religious education; Childhood; Children's education - Religious aspects
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/1944

Throughout history human beings have searched for resources and structures beyond themselves that can explain what escapes the rational and logical systems that humanity has built to answer primordial questions such as birth, illness, old age and death. Considering the transcendent and mysterious nature of such explanations and the potential of spirituality for human development, we propose the thesis that, in order to consolidate an integral and multidimensional formation of childhood, spirituality it can be inserted into the context of Early Childhood Education helping to build skills related to how children deal with themselves, with others and with the diversity. Therefore, our general objective was to structure descriptively and analytically the potential for the integral development of childhood from the insertion of spirituality in the context of Early Childhood Education. This led to the following specific objectives: a) to collate the different conceptions of spirituality and childhood, outlining the possibilities and/or impossibilities of approaching the spiritual dimension in the context of Early Childhood Education; b) to describe the main concepts related to integral formation by locating approximations and/or distancing from the spiritual dimension, in the legal documents that guide Early Childhood Education; c) To investigate, through field research, how teachers understood childhood, spirituality and integral education in the context of early childhood education; d) To identify the aspects related to integral education that relate to spirituality, based on the contributions of the Sciences of Religion capable of resizing early childhood education. In a descriptive and exploratory approach, the bibliographical review and documentary analysis of the guiding instruments for early childhood education at national and local level showed that in addition to the difficulties associated with the multiple concepts of spirituality, the comprehensive education envisaged does not effectively contemplate the multidimensionality of children. Data collected through semi-structured interviews in the field of this research (nine educational institutions in the Municipal Education Network in Recife) was analyzed according to Content Analysis (Bardin 2011) and showed that spirituality oscillates between the religious aspect, linked directly to the different religions and belief systems with a predominance of Christian traditions, and on the other hand with the promotion of human values considered universal and fundamental for the formation of future citizens from a perspective of the child as (becoming). The fear of facing problems with the children's families and compliance with the principle of secularism make the issue still controversial, although there is recognition of the importance of spirituality for a less individualistic human formation and for living with the cultural and religious diversity present in the school and in society. Although distinct, spirituality and religiosity are related, which makes it possible for there to be a dialog between Early Childhood Education and the Sciences of Religion, an area of knowledge whose theoretical-methodological collection can contribute to the insertion of spiritual intelligence as proposed by Francesc Torralba (2012, 2013) in a transdisciplinary way in the context of Early Childhood Education, providing subsidies for the didactic treatment of fundamental issues related to the meaning of existence and the approach to religious diversity.