Religious education in colombian schools: A possibility of a pedagogic enviroment

Abstract

After the enactment of the new Colombian Political Constitution in 1991, an immediate response was generated by the secularism option of the State, as a non denominational State, in which the Freedom of Religion in equal legal conditions was guaranteed. In the daily Colombian life since the XIX century it was considered a Christian nation for its customs, rites, and religious practices, the interference of the secular modern world was entering with naturalization papers, among a popular idiosyncrasy covered with expressions of popular religiosity and religious language. This new change immediately made the State institutions secular, especially public schools where the religion of yesteryear gave way to the education of values. As time passes, it is the government itself in its law 115 of 1994 which reintroduced values as an importance of integral formation in a person. It is considered that the individual in all his dimensions, religious or transcendent dimension being one of them. Therefore the government again takes into account the subject «Religion» as a mandatory and fundamental subject in the curriculum. This article tries to make a reenactment of this reality.