Abstract

SOUZA, Jacqueline Crepaldi. HUMAN EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Eccos Rev. Cient. [online]. 2021, n.58, e13509.  Epub Feb 06, 2024. ISSN 1983-9278.  https://doi.org/10.5585/eccos.n58.13509.

Early Childhood Education in Brazil, the first stage of basic education, aims at the integral development of the child in its physical, psychological, intellectual and social aspects. Religiosity is indeed linked to these dimensions as openness of the person to the meaning of life and the space of humanization of the child are. In this context, the article tries to answer the following question: "Is Religious Education capable of assisting in the human education of children in early childhood education?" The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between human education and the religious dimension of children in early childhood education. The qualitative and bibliographical methodology included authors such as La Taille (2009), Winnicott (1975, 1983, 1999), Gruen (1994), Lévinas (1993) and Augustine of Hipona (1984). As a conclusion, it is said that approaching religiosity as an opening to the construction of meaning requires education and care in a society that sometimes becomes meaningless, reproducing a great existential emptiness in children.

Keywords : child education; religious education; human formation; meaning..

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