El aprendizaje significativo de la ERE en los niños de séptimo grado de la Institución Educativa Escuela Normal Superior de Neiva

Abstract

Religious Education in Schools (RES) is established as a fundamental and mandatory area within educational institutions, intended to contribute to the personal development of the individual and the full development of their faculties. However, although regulations recognize it as essential, in practice it is often relegated, that is, it is given little priority within the school curriculum, which is reflected in the low number of class hours and the perception of it as a supplementary rather than a formative subject. Given this reality, this research addresses the role of RES in the comprehensive education of seventh-grade students at the Escuela Normal Superior de Neiva (ENS). To this end, it is structured in three chapters: the first, entitled "Preliminaries," defines the topic and contextualizes the target population; the second, corresponding to the theoretical framework, develops the conceptual, legal, pedagogical, and didactic categories that underpin RES and Meaningful Learning; and the third presents the findings and conclusions, resulting from the analysis of the perceptions of students and the lead teacher. This work seeks to highlight the importance of meaningful learning in Religious Education (RE) as an essential component of Colombian education, emphasizing its contribution to students' personal, cultural, spiritual, and social development. It also presents RE as a relevant alternative for life skills education, strengthening the affective, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions of the student, while offering a critical analysis of RE in light of the undervaluation it has suffered in the school setting.