IV Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social

Abstract

CALIMAN, Geraldo. Comunidades educativas e espiritualidade na educação social. In Proceedings of the 4th. Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social IV Congresso Internacional de Pedagogia Social, 2012, São Paulo (SP, Brazil) [online]. 2012 [cited 11 December 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000092012000100033&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

With reference to membership of a religious group and / or cohesive group in their values ​​and standards (a "moral community"), the article inquires about the preventive potential of youth participation in religious activities. We found some answers on why this potential in two loaves of sociological research: the lode on the study of asocial behavior and linked to theories of human needs. Identifies, finally, three religious and educational three phenomena considered, in general, of great importance in the articulation of socioeducational methodologies: the emergence of existential needs, meaning and transcendence, the construction of life projects capable of generating such deep motivations, the function preventive educational communities. These educational and religious phenomena tend to prevent the development of asocial behavior and delinquency.

Keywords : Religious education; prevention; moral community; social education.