Pinpointing difficulties in school religious education to assist in teaching support (Identificación de las dificultades en la educación religiosa escolar para un mejor apoyo a la docencia).

This study addresses difficulties encountered when teaching school religious education in rural contexts. The objective is to reveal critical dimensions for teaching and to propose a pedagogical support programme for teachers of religion. The method used is qualitative, and the design is based on Grounded Theory. Participants are teachers of rural schools. The data collection considered semi-structured interviews. The results are divided into categories: sociocultural, curricular, ecclesiastical and formative difficulties. The conclusions reached include the need for a proposal to teach school religious education with an intercultural and interreligious approach. Teachers of religion experience a sense of abandonment, which requires designing socioculturally relevant teaching support programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]