SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: EXPECTATIONS OF PARENTS WHO SEND THEIR CHILDREN THE EDUCATION OF CATECHESIS

Abstract

The present article is part of a questionnaire elaborated in the Master's Degree in Administration and Regulation of Education at the Samora Moisés Machel Academy. Its objective is to analyze the importance of catechesis education for society. A research done in one of the neighborhoods in the city and province of Nampula, aims to understand the expectations of parents in relation to religious education, in particular the “catechesis” of their children. It is a fact that education, particularly Christian, has a great influence on man in his coexistence with others, whether at work, in the family, at leisure and among other spaces. The methodology used in the elaboration of this work was the field research that consisted of the presentation of an inquiry to several Christian parents in order to gather their sensibilities in relation to the subject. Therefore, this brought advances rarely investigated in Mozambique and makes it understand that parents do have expectations regarding the education offered by religious institutions. Thus, it is concluded from this study that, parents send their children to catechesis to seek their preparation for a better future and the conservation of religious values in the family, denying that it may simply be a culture inherited from the Portuguese people even with the divergences between expectations and reality.