Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1994. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: L. Lee Knefelkamp. Dissertation Committee: Dawn R. Person. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90).

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-02-10T18:25:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LILIAN BALEEIRO.pdf: 929559 bytes, checksum: 6a4ccc723d7203716587e4a39fd32132 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-10T18:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LILIAN BALEEIRO.pdf: 929559 bytes, checksum: 6a4ccc723d7203716587e4a39fd32132 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / With this thesis we present the inter-religious dialogue, from the Brazilian religious pluralist situation, as a challenge for the discussion of religious education in public schools in the secular state of Brazil, with the purpose to overcome intolerance and religious exclusivism. In the first chapter we will introduce the present situation of religious education, especially in its important historical moments, the relationship with the secular state and the position of the Permanent National Forum of Religious Education (FONAPER). In the second chapter we analyze the Brazilian religious plurality taking into account the elements of the Brazilian religious map, relating it to data from the last census of IBGE, with the intention of knowing the Brazilian religious framework and the plural context in which religious education is inserted. In the last chapter we will discuss a proposal of a religious education as ‘a space of dialogue’ between different religions, making use of the foundational elements of the theology of religious pluralism and interreligious dialogue. The practice of religious education as ‘a space of dialogue’ is brought forward as the option that enables tolerance among religious groups represented in the school environment. / Com a presente dissertação buscamos apresentar o diálogo inter-religioso, a partir do pluralismo religioso brasileiro, como desafio para a discussão sobre o ensino religioso em escolas públicas no Brasil, enquanto Estado laico, possibilitando a superação da intolerância e do exclusivismo religiosos. Para isso, no primeiro capítulo apresentaremos a situação do ensino religioso, com destaque para momentos históricos, sua relação com a laicidade do Estado e a experiência do Fórum Nacional Permanente do Ensino Religioso (FONAPER). No segundo capítulo analisaremos a pluralidade religiosa brasileira a partir elementos formadores do mapa religioso brasileiro, relacionando com os dados dos últimos censos do IBGE, com a intenção de conhecer o quadro religioso brasileiro e o contexto plural no qual o ensino religioso está inserido. No último capítulo discutiremos a proposta de um ensino religioso como espaço de diálogo entre as diferentes religiões, utilizando para isso alguns elementos da teologia do pluralismo religioso e do diálogo inter-religioso como fundamentos. A prática do ensino religioso enquanto espaço de diálogo é possível e possibilita a tolerância entre os grupos religiosos que estão representados no ambiente escolar.

Thesis (MEdPsych)-- Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to explore teachers‟ understanding of inclusive education within an independent Islamic school. The research was designed to explore the way the values and principles of tolerance and respect for religious and cultural diversity might be accommodated or promoted within an independent Islamic school in South Africa. Such schools are guided by the aims and objectives of Islamic education, as defined at the First World Conference on Muslim Education held in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in 1977. However, such schools are also bound by the aims and objectives of inclusive education, as propagated by the Department of Education, which strives to promote religious and cultural diversity within a democratic society. In this study the views and experiences of nine teachers with regard to inclusivity, cultural and religious tolerance and democratic citizenship were researched. It was argued that teachers and schools represent the earliest opportunity for learners to develop meaningful relationships with and positive attitudes towards others; this enables learners to feel valued and included as citizens within a democratic and diverse society. This qualitative study was limited to one independent Islamic school in the Western Cape. The data was collected through semi-structured personal and focus group interviews and was analysed within an interpretive paradigm. The findings were that whilst the participants agreed that access to the school should be open to all learners irrespective of religion, most felt that non-Muslim learners should be taught separately. Though a school environment should promote tolerance and respectful attitudes towards learners from different cultures and backgrounds, the participants supported a school ethos that was founded on Islamic principles. The main recommendation of this study is that the independent Islamic schools should give careful consideration to their role within society if they wish to create a democratic citizenry and promote religious and cultural diversity. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om onderwysers se begrip van insluitende opvoeding binne ‟n onafhanklike Islamitiese skool te eksploreer. Die navorsing was ontwerp om te eksploreer hoe die waardes en beginsels van verdraagsaamheid en respek vir godsdiens en kulturele diversiteit geakkommodeer en bevorder kan word binne ‟n Islamitiese skool in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie tipe skole volg die doelwitte en doelstellings van Islamitiese opvoeding, soos gedefinieer by die Eerste Wêreld Konferensie oor Moslem Opvoeding in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in 1977. Hierdie skole is wel ook verbonde aan die doelwitte en doelstellings van inklusiewe opvoeding, soos voorgeskryf deur die Onderwysdepartement, wat streef vir die bevordering van godsdiens en kulturele diversiteit binne ‟n demokratiese samelewing. Die meninge en ervarings van nege opvoeders in verband met inklusiwiteit, godsdiens en kulturele verdraagsaamheid en demokratiese burgerskap was ondersoek. Die argument was dat opvoeders en skole verteenwoordig was van die vroegste geleenthede vir leerders om waardevolle verhoudings met positiewe houdings teenoor ander te ontwikkel. Dit stel leerders in staat om waardevol en ingesluit te voel as burgers binne ‟n demokratiese en diverse samelewing. Hierdie kwalitatiewe studie was afgebaken tot een onafhanklike Islamitiese skool in die Weskaap. Die data was ingesamel deur semi-gestruktureerde persoonlike en fokus groep onderhoude en was geanaliseer binne ‟n interpretatiewe paradigma. Die uitkomste was dat deelnemers daarmee saamgestem het dat die skool oop moet wees vir alle leerders ongeag van hul godsdiens. Die meerderheid het wel gevoel dat nie-Moslem leerders aparte onderrig moet ontvang; alhoewel ‟n skool ‟n omgewing moet bevorder vir verdraagsaamheid en respekvolle houdings teenoor leerders van verskillende kulture en agtergronde. Die deelnemers het ‟n skool etos ondersteun wat baseer is op Islamitiese beginsels. Die hoof aanbeveling van hierdie studie is dat onafhanklike Islamitiese skole versigtige oorweging moet gee aan hul rol binne ‟n samelewing indien hul ‟n demokratiese burgerskap wil skep en godsdiens en kulturele diversiteit wil bevorder.

This thesis considers how religious diversification has shaped the roles of clergy and seminaries. The focus of this qualitative, interview-based study is seminaries and clergy affiliated with various denominations of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. Religiously diversifying societies in the US and England have brought forth new challenges for clergy and seminaries, prompting new questions about how or why a faith community should or should not engage with diversity in the public square. This study investigates how seminaries and individual members of the clergy, as sources of religious authority, are responding to religious diversification in different ways - the former sluggish to recognise the impact of religious diversification in curriculum and pedagogical structures and the latter seeing it as a resource for social action initiatives, local networks, and political activism. This has created a gap between training and practice whereby clergy have assumed greater religious authority in religious life. Beyond contributing to the field of sociology of religion, this thesis concludes by allowing the experience of clergy in interreligious engagement to inform appropriate pedagogies that could be employed by seminaries.

Univ., Diss.--Münster, 2004. / Literaturverz. S. 191 - 223.

Univ., Diss.--Köln, 2001. / Literaturverz. S. 207 - 247.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Foi analisado, nesta pesquisa, as condições de possibilidades para criação do Colégio Nossa Senhora das Dores na cidade de São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais. Fundado em1898 pelas Filhas da Caridade, iniciou suas atividades com o ensino voltado para um público exclusivamente feminino. O prédio foi construído para abrigar cem alunas internas e tantas outras externas para a formação primária, "ginasial", secundária e o Curso Normal, tendo funcionado em regime de internato, semi-internato e externato. Ao considerar os diferentes estratos de formação para os quais a escola se voltou, enfatizei o exame no nível da formação docente, buscando compreender as relações entre sociedade e educação escolar religiosa e suas articulações com os modelos educacionais difundidos à época. Para tanto, analisei os dispositivos disciplinares destinados a institucionalizar um programa, tendo como princípio a difusão da doutrina cristã associada à formação docente praticada no Colégio no início do seu funcionamento. No projeto de construção é possível observar a preocupação dos idealizadores em reafirmar um modelo escolar de formação do magistério em meio ao debate da qualificação docente em que diferentes modelos de formação estiveram em pauta. Em função do entrelaçamento dos ambientes urbanos e escolares produzidos no final do século XIX e início do XX, as remodelações de cidade fizeram emergir, em São João del-Rei, um edifício exemplar, representado na configuração do ecletismo mineiro. Nessa investigação, os saberes e tempos escolares se tornaram imprescindíveis para proceder à análise da criação e funcionamento da instituição examinada. Da mesma forma, o exame da instituição foi perseguido à medida que essas preocupações apareceram associadas, visto que os lugares e as práticas que os instituíram não podem ser deslocados do que se conseguiu produzir. O estudo enfocou o período entre a criação da instituição (1898) até 1905, ano em que o Curso Normal do CNSD foi equiparado aos cursos das escolas normais oficiais do Estado. Foi baseado na análise de leis, periódicos, relatórios de presidentes de província/estado, normas e estatutos da congregação e de uma vasta documentação localizada no CNSD. Ao entrecruzar essas fontes, a presente pesquisa buscou problematizar as dimensões de governo contidas nos planos da Igreja Católica, em termos gerais, e da Congregação da Missão de São Vicente de Paulo e das Filhas da Caridade, em específico. Pode-se dizer que o CNSD, por meio das Filhas da Caridade da Sociedade São Vicente de Paulo, deixou marcas em São João del-Rei como uma escola brasileira católica cristã, o que reforça a larga tradição de fazer da escola um instrumento de afirmação da fé. Para tal, muito contribuiu o novo estatuto jurídico adquirido em 1905, ampliando a legitimidade conquistada pelo CNSD, constituindo um sinal de forças das "irmãs" na cidade, assim como na eficiência de estratégias e de efetividade da ação educativa protagonizada pelas vicentinas em São João del-Rei. Nessa perspectiva, é possível afirmar que o projeto expansionista do catolicismo romanizado buscou alargar seu raio de ação em diversos locais, seja no interior de uma cidade mineira, seja no Brasil ou em outros países. / By means of this research we intended to analyze the possible conditions to the creation of the Colégio Nossa Senhora das Dores in the city of São João del-Rei, MG. Created in 1898 by the Daughters of Charity, it began its activity with a school aimed only and exclusively at the feminine group. The building was built to house one hundred boarding students and others externals to the primary formation, junior high, secondary and the teachers? course, which functioned in a boarding, semi and external regime. By looking at the different extracts of the formation to which the school turned to, I emphasized the study of the teachers? formation, trying to understand the relations between society and religious education and its articulation with the educational models spread at the time. Because of that I analyzed the disciplinary devices destined to institutionalize a program, which had as principle the diffusion of the Christian doctrine associated with the teaching formation practiced at the school in the beginning of its operation. Because of the interrelationship between the school and urban environments built at the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century, the city reshuffle made emerge in SJDR, an exemplar building represented by the mineiro eclecticism configuration. In this research, the school times and knowledge became fundamental to proceed the analysis of the creation and operation of the institution examined. The study focused the period between the creation of the institution (1898) until 1905, year in which the teachers? course of CNSD was treated as the courses of the official teachers? school of the State. This research, based in the analysis of the law, journals and reports of the presidents of the Province/ State, regulations and the Congregation?s status and a wide documentation located at CNSD, crossed these documentations, and intended to problematize the Government dimensions inside the plans of the Catholic Church, in general terms and of the Congregation of the São Vicente de Paulo mission and specifically, of the daughters of Charity. It's possible to say that the CNSD, through the Daughters of Charity of the SVP left marks in São João del-Rei as a Christian Brazilian catholic school, which reaffirm the wide tradition to make the school an instrument of faith affirmation. For that, contributed the new legal status acquired in 1905, enlarging the legitimacy earned by CNSD, constituted as a signal of forces of the Sisters in the city, as well as the efficiency strategies and effectiveness of the educational action which had the Vicentinas in São João del-Rei as protagonists. In this perspective it's possible to affirm that the expansionist Roman Catholic project intended to extend its radius of action to many locations, either inside the mineira city, either in Brazil and other countries. For that, a rigorous system of rules was elaborated by the Congregation, constituted, in its majority by men, having in mind the affirmation and the establishment of the project of the Daughters of Charity in different places.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:35:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa.pdf: 16905229 bytes, checksum: 937fc697eec212bd3a8d088fe3c774ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present work looks for a study of the mean aspects related with the primary teacher`s formation by the Regular School São José, in Xanxerê, Santa Catarina`s west, between 1962 and 1960. The Sisters São José, who came first from France (century XVII), and was radicated in Brasil in the middle of century XIX; came from Curitiba/PR, and fixed theirselves in Xanxerê/SC, when they got emancipated, in 1953, and dedicated of teaching people. Between 1962 and 1969, the Sisters São José keeps up the Regular School São José in purpose to educate girls from the outskirts of town. The School was, in 1969, bought by the Government of Santa Catarina`s State, and then it was changed to a public school, and not connected with religions anymore, named E. E. B. Presidente Arthur da Costa e Silva. This whole study was made by the Cultural and Educational history`s perspective, eminencing the aspect of the Culture of Schools practised in Regular Course in this confessional feminine school, between 1962 and 1969, through the study of the subjects Higiene and Puericultura, and Trabalhos Manuais, that was in the educational curriculum. Through the documental and bibliographic research, so as the interviews with ex students and materials from their personal patrimony, it was possible to investigate evidences of this formation, with the foccus in the instrution, (formation as a primary teacher), but also a training to the marriage and family life, social parts that was waited for the young ladies in that context / Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar aspectos relacionados à formação de professoras primárias oferecida pelo Colégio Normal São José, em Xanxerê, Oeste de Santa Catarina, entre os anos de 1962 a 1969. Oriundas da França (séc. XVII), radicadas no Brasil em meados do séc. XIX, as Irmãs de São José, vindas de Curitiba/PR, estabeleceram-se na cidade de Xanxerê/SC, quando de sua emancipação, em 1953, dedicando-se ao ensino. Entre 1962 e 1969, as Irmãs de São José mantiveram em Xanxerê/SC, o Colégio Normal São José, com o objetivo de educar/formar moças do interior. No ano de 1969, o colégio foi comprado pelo Governo do Estado de Santa Catarina, transformando-se numa escola laica e pública, com o nome de E. E. B. Presidente Arthur da Costa e Silva. Este estudo, realizado na perspectiva da História Cultural da Educação, destaca o aspecto da Cultura Escolar praticada no Curso Normal nesta escola confessional feminina, entre 1962 e 1969, através do estudo das disciplinas de Higiene e Puericultura e Trabalhos Manuais, que compunham o currículo escolar. Através da pesquisa bibliográfica, bem como de entrevistas de ex-alunas e coleta de materiais oriundos de seus acervos pessoais, foi possível rastrear indícios dessa formação, voltada para a instrução e a profissionalização (formação como professora primária), mas também para uma preparação ao casamento e à vida familiar, papéis sociais esperados para jovens mulheres naquela situação e contexto

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Foi analisado, nesta pesquisa, as condições de possibilidades para criação do Colégio Nossa Senhora das Dores na cidade de São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais. Fundado em1898 pelas Filhas da Caridade, iniciou suas atividades com o ensino voltado para um público exclusivamente feminino. O prédio foi construído para abrigar cem alunas internas e tantas outras externas para a formação primária, "ginasial", secundária e o Curso Normal, tendo funcionado em regime de internato, semi-internato e externato. Ao considerar os diferentes estratos de formação para os quais a escola se voltou, enfatizei o exame no nível da formação docente, buscando compreender as relações entre sociedade e educação escolar religiosa e suas articulações com os modelos educacionais difundidos à época. Para tanto, analisei os dispositivos disciplinares destinados a institucionalizar um programa, tendo como princípio a difusão da doutrina cristã associada à formação docente praticada no Colégio no início do seu funcionamento. No projeto de construção é possível observar a preocupação dos idealizadores em reafirmar um modelo escolar de formação do magistério em meio ao debate da qualificação docente em que diferentes modelos de formação estiveram em pauta. Em função do entrelaçamento dos ambientes urbanos e escolares produzidos no final do século XIX e início do XX, as remodelações de cidade fizeram emergir, em São João del-Rei, um edifício exemplar, representado na configuração do ecletismo mineiro. Nessa investigação, os saberes e tempos escolares se tornaram imprescindíveis para proceder à análise da criação e funcionamento da instituição examinada. Da mesma forma, o exame da instituição foi perseguido à medida que essas preocupações apareceram associadas, visto que os lugares e as práticas que os instituíram não podem ser deslocados do que se conseguiu produzir. O estudo enfocou o período entre a criação da instituição (1898) até 1905, ano em que o Curso Normal do CNSD foi equiparado aos cursos das escolas normais oficiais do Estado. Foi baseado na análise de leis, periódicos, relatórios de presidentes de província/estado, normas e estatutos da congregação e de uma vasta documentação localizada no CNSD. Ao entrecruzar essas fontes, a presente pesquisa buscou problematizar as dimensões de governo contidas nos planos da Igreja Católica, em termos gerais, e da Congregação da Missão de São Vicente de Paulo e das Filhas da Caridade, em específico. Pode-se dizer que o CNSD, por meio das Filhas da Caridade da Sociedade São Vicente de Paulo, deixou marcas em São João del-Rei como uma escola brasileira católica cristã, o que reforça a larga tradição de fazer da escola um instrumento de afirmação da fé. Para tal, muito contribuiu o novo estatuto jurídico adquirido em 1905, ampliando a legitimidade conquistada pelo CNSD, constituindo um sinal de forças das "irmãs" na cidade, assim como na eficiência de estratégias e de efetividade da ação educativa protagonizada pelas vicentinas em São João del-Rei. Nessa perspectiva, é possível afirmar que o projeto expansionista do catolicismo romanizado buscou alargar seu raio de ação em diversos locais, seja no interior de uma cidade mineira, seja no Brasil ou em outros países. / By means of this research we intended to analyze the possible conditions to the creation of the Colégio Nossa Senhora das Dores in the city of São João del-Rei, MG. Created in 1898 by the Daughters of Charity, it began its activity with a school aimed only and exclusively at the feminine group. The building was built to house one hundred boarding students and others externals to the primary formation, junior high, secondary and the teachers? course, which functioned in a boarding, semi and external regime. By looking at the different extracts of the formation to which the school turned to, I emphasized the study of the teachers? formation, trying to understand the relations between society and religious education and its articulation with the educational models spread at the time. Because of that I analyzed the disciplinary devices destined to institutionalize a program, which had as principle the diffusion of the Christian doctrine associated with the teaching formation practiced at the school in the beginning of its operation. Because of the interrelationship between the school and urban environments built at the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century, the city reshuffle made emerge in SJDR, an exemplar building represented by the mineiro eclecticism configuration. In this research, the school times and knowledge became fundamental to proceed the analysis of the creation and operation of the institution examined. The study focused the period between the creation of the institution (1898) until 1905, year in which the teachers? course of CNSD was treated as the courses of the official teachers? school of the State. This research, based in the analysis of the law, journals and reports of the presidents of the Province/ State, regulations and the Congregation?s status and a wide documentation located at CNSD, crossed these documentations, and intended to problematize the Government dimensions inside the plans of the Catholic Church, in general terms and of the Congregation of the São Vicente de Paulo mission and specifically, of the daughters of Charity. It's possible to say that the CNSD, through the Daughters of Charity of the SVP left marks in São João del-Rei as a Christian Brazilian catholic school, which reaffirm the wide tradition to make the school an instrument of faith affirmation. For that, contributed the new legal status acquired in 1905, enlarging the legitimacy earned by CNSD, constituted as a signal of forces of the Sisters in the city, as well as the efficiency strategies and effectiveness of the educational action which had the Vicentinas in São João del-Rei as protagonists. In this perspective it's possible to affirm that the expansionist Roman Catholic project intended to extend its radius of action to many locations, either inside the mineira city, either in Brazil and other countries. For that, a rigorous system of rules was elaborated by the Congregation, constituted, in its majority by men, having in mind the affirmation and the establishment of the project of the Daughters of Charity in different places.

Cette thèse fut réalisée en codirection avec la Faculté des sciences de l'éducation de l'Université de Montréal. Elle fut produite grâce à l’importante contribution financière de nombreux organismes subventionnaires, soit le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH), le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC); aussi financés par le CRSH, le Projet religion et diversité (dir. Lori G. Beaman, Université d’Ottawa), le projet IRTG-Diversité (Groupe international de formation en recherche sur la diversité) (dir. Laurence McFalls, Université de Montréal; dir. Ursula Lehmkuhl, Université de Trèves), la Chaire en gestion de la diversité culturelle et religieuse (CGDCR) dont Solange Lefebvre est titulaire ainsi que la Faculté de sciences des religions et théologie de l’Université de Montréal. / Le programme québécois non confessionnel d’Éthique et culture religieuse (ECR) exige de ses enseignants une posture professionnelle d’impartialité et d’objectivité. Cette dernière suscite une controverse sociale et des poursuites judiciaires. Les détracteurs du programme, comme ses défenseurs, invoquent l’impartialité de l’enseignement pour justifier leur position, mais en y conférant un sens différent. Malgré l’importance de cette question, aucune recherche empirique ne propose d’analyser l’impartialité des enseignants. Sur le plan théorique, on rencontre une diversité d’usages des concepts. Cette thèse propose une clarification de la question, tant sur le plan théorique que pratique. Une analyse approfondie de la posture professionnelle d’impartialité exigée en ECR est effectuée en première partie. S’ensuit une clarification des concepts d’impartialité, d’objectivité et de neutralité. Si le terme neutralité semble dominer la littérature en éducation et en politique, l’objectivité est principalement utilisée pour définir la posture du chercheur scientifique et le savoir qu’il produit. De son côté, l’impartialité est le parent pauvre de la littérature, particulièrement en éducation. Elle se trouve mieux définie dans le domaine de la justice et du droit, qualifiant surtout l’impartialité du juge. Dans la deuxième partie de cette thèse, la méthodologie, les résultats d’analyse d’entrevues et ceux des observations sont présentés en examinant comment les enseignants d’ECR problématisent et négocient avec l’exigence d’impartialité professionnelle. La thèse innove aussi en analysant tant le propos que la mise en pratique de cette exigence d’impartialité en ECR chez 12 enseignants « typiques » ou « exemplaires » au secondaire provenant de milieux socioculturels différents (écoles privées confessionnelles ou publiques non confessionnelles de milieu multiculturel ou non multiculturel), répondant aux questions suivantes : Comment les enseignants conçoivent-ils l’impartialité exigée en ECR? Comment l’impartialité exigée en ECR est-elle mise en pratique dans l’enseignement d’ECR au secondaire? Réalisées à partir d’une approche déductive thématique, les analyses transversales des observations non participantes en classe et des entrevues semi-directives d’enseignants permettent de cerner les liens existant entre l’analyse théorique des prescriptions du programme ECR réalisée en première instance et les données qualitatives recueillies en deuxième instance. Dans la discussion sont présentés les six principaux résultats se dégageant des analyses des 12 enseignants participants. Proposant une réflexion critique sur l’impartialité exigée en ECR, les résultats empiriques sont approfondis par les analyses théoriques, contribuant aussi à éclairer la question dans les domaines préoccupés par des défis professionnels similaires. Le premier résultat indique qu’il n’y a aucune influence des variables personnelles ou professionnelles des enseignants participants sur leur compréhension et leur mise en pratique de l’impartialité professionnelle exigée en ECR. Le deuxième rappelle qu’il existe une polysémie et une confusion conceptuelle entre les termes neutralité, impartialité et objectivité, tant chez nos enseignants que dans la littérature. La thèse propose à ce sujet des voies de clarification utiles. S’appuyant sur une typologie de l’impartialité élaborée en première partie, le troisième résultat explique que l’impartialité absolue ou « axiologique » est généralement rejetée. Le quatrième résultat rappelle que la notion de distance critique s’avère être le fondement de l’impartialité exigée en ECR. Le cinquième montre les différences entre l’impartialité religieuse et éthique, les questions d’endoctrinement religieux et d’expression ou non des croyances religieuses personnelles dominant la question de l’impartialité. Quant au sixième résultat, il résume les nombreux problèmes associés à l’exigence d’intervenir à partir des finalités du programme, ces finalités renvoyant à des concepts polysémiques et flous pour les enseignants. / The non-denominational Quebec program Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) requires that its teachers adopt a professional stance that is both impartial and objective. The program has provoked social controversy and lawsuits, with its critics appealing to teacher impartiality to justify their position, but interpreting it differently than do its advocates. Despite the importance of this issue, no empirical research has been put forward to analyze teacher impartiality. As for theory, we find these concepts used in a wide variety of ways. This dissertation proposes to clarify the issue, from both a theoretical and practical perspective. In the first section, we present an in-depth analysis of the professional stance of impartiality required in ERC. Following that is an explanation of the concepts of impartiality, objectivity and neutrality. While the term ‘neutrality’ seems to dominate educational and political literature, objectivity is mainly used to describe the stance of scientific researchers and the knowledge they produce. As for impartiality, it is the ‘poor cousin’ in literature, especially in education. It is more clearly defined in the domains of justice and law, characterizing in particular a judge’s impartiality. In the second section of this dissertation, we present the methodology used and the results of analyzing interviews and observations, by examining how ERC teachers problematize and negotiate the requirement of professional impartiality. Our innovative approach analyzes not only the implementation of this ERC impartiality requirement, but the discourse of 12 ‘typical’ or ‘exemplary’ secondary school teachers from different sociocultural settings (private denominational or public non-denominational schools, with multicultural or non-multicultural environments). The teachers replied to the following questions: How do teachers conceptualize the impartiality required in ERC? How is the ERC impartiality requirement put into practice in ERC teaching in secondary schools? The use of a thematic deductive approach (transversal analyses of non-participant observations in class and semi-directed teacher interviews) allows for the identification of existing connections between a theoretical analysis of the ERC program in the first case and the qualitative data gathered in the second case. Six primary conclusions emerging from these analyses are discussed. Proposing a critical reflection on the impartiality required in ERC, empirical results are clarified by theoretical analyses, which also aids in understanding the issue in fields where similar professional challenges are faced. The first outcome indicates that personal or professional variables in teachers have no influence on their understanding and implementation of the professional impartiality required in ERC. The second emphasizes the existence of polysemy and conceptual confusion concerning the terms neutrality, impartiality and objectivity, in teachers’ minds as well as in literature. In this regard, this dissertation suggests some useful paths of clarification. Next, based on a typology of impartiality developed in the first section, the third result explains that absolute or ‘axiological’ impartiality is generally rejected. The fourth conclusion reminds us that the idea of critical distance proves to be the foundation of the impartiality required in ERC. The fifth outcome demonstrates the differences between religious and ethical impartiality, with issues of religious indoctrination and the expression or non-expression of personal religious beliefs dominating the issue of impartiality. Finally, the sixth result summarizes the numerous difficulties associated with the requirement of intervening in accordance with program goals, as these goals refer to concepts that teachers find to be polysemous and vague.