The aim of this study is presented by two steps. The first is to gain an insight into what students think regarding sustainable development and religion. The second is to investigate what content in sustainable development can be used in religious studies through the students' perspective and how this content can be implemented to promote the work for sustainable development in schools. Seventeen qualitative semi-structured interviews with mainly open questions are performed. The focus is to get information about how Swedish high school students reason about and reflect on sustainable development and how they reflect on its connection to religion and to religious studies. The empirical result is analysed and discussed. The conclusions show that the respondents wish a sustainable society with a lifestyle without excessive consumption and thereby without environmental problems, with security and with a good education. They emphasize the importance of a meaningful, safe, and challenging education on religious studies. They are willing to discuss in depth and with respect for the different opinions that may emerge, about different perceptions of sustainable development that are related to the different identities and ways of religious lifestyles. This can be achieved through a communicative approach in the classroom, with a goal to create the dialogic classroom

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Armando Lourenco Filho.pdf: 1255286 bytes, checksum: 19d1453f0efcd8caeacc8645bdee6978 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-20 / The issue of this dissertation is the student?s autonomy, considered in the dimension of their intellectual emancipation as a fundamental basis for the successful development of educational activities, as well as the development of active citizens. This research was based on the philosophical method, elaborated from bibliographic review under the perspective of philosophy of education. The question that leaded our research was: what are the challenges to promote student?s autonomy? To answer this question, we investigated the concept of the student?s autonomy in the classical educational conceptions: in Antiquity, the Socratic-Platonic Paideia and also the Modern Age, the Enlightenment, the conceptions of Rousseau and Kant and further Dewey s democratic-progressive pedagogy. Then we draw Brazilian educational history timeline highlights, in order to find also some concern about the issue of student?s autonomy, from the beginning of the Colonial period and reaching the first years of the Brazilian Republic, with the diffusion of the New Education of Dewey. At last, we developed a reflection about the challenges for the promotion of the student?s autonomy, in an effort to answer to our initial question. In this sense we found, a challenge that involves the discussion about a meaning of a good education, covering the issues of quality, freedom and education for citizenship. Similarly the discussion about the performance of the teacher and the student inside the educational process: about their roles and responsibilities. In this direction, we indicate to the need of student s commitment on learning processes and highlight their individual responsibility for the construction of knowledge. / A tem?tica dessa disserta??o de mestrado ? a quest?o da autonomia discente, pensada na dimens?o da emancipa??o intelectual dos educandos, como caracter?stica fundamental para o bom desenvolvimento das atividades educacionais, bem como para a forma??o de cidad?os ativos. Pensamos essa tem?tica na perspectiva do m?todo filos?fico, elaborado a partir de revis?o bibliogr?fica, sob o prisma da filosofia da educa??o. A pergunta que orientou nossa investiga??o foi: quais os desafios para a promo??o da autonomia discente? Para responder a essa quest?o, partimos da investiga??o do conceito de autonomia discente nas concep??es educacionais cl?ssicas, a saber: na Antiguidade, a Paideia socr?tico-plat?nica e, na Idade Moderna, a concep??o Iluminista, nas perspectivas de Rousseau e de Kant e a pedagogia democr?tico-progressista de Dewey. Em seguida procuramos tra?ar, de forma longitudinal, um panorama da educa??o no territ?rio brasileiro, a fim de encontrarmos tamb?m alguma preocupa??o com a quest?o da autonomia discente, partindo do per?odo Colonial alcan?ando os primeiros anos da Rep?blica, com a difus?o dos ideais da Escola Nova. Por fim, desenvolvemos uma reflex?o mais direta sobre os desafios para a promo??o da autonomia discente, procurando, com isso, responder ? nossa quest?o inicial. Encontramos, nesse sentido, um desafio que envolve a discuss?o do que seria uma boa educa??o, abrangendo a quest?o da qualidade, da liberdade e da forma??o para cidadania, bem como, outro desafio na discuss?o sobre a atua??o dos principais elementos do processo educativo, o professor e o aluno, a respeito das suas atribui??es e responsabilidades. Nessa dire??o, percebemos a necessidade do envolvimento ativo e produtivo do educando nos processos de aprendizagem e, destacamos a sua responsabilidade individual para a constru??o do conhecimento.