Entrando no jogo: reflexões sobre os docentes, acadêmicos e da tradição para pensar o ensino da capoeira na escola

Abstract

We know that capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian manifestation that has consolidated itself historically in the bowels of the tradition, but that today it permeates several spaces. Aware of this, we believe that the process of transmitting the knowledge of capoeira is shaped by otherness and that the different knowledge such as tradition, academics and teachers relate to this cultural manifestation, giving different purports and meanings. However, we consider that it is necessary to reflect how the area of Physical Education - a cut of the academic universe - has established a relationship with the knowledge of capoeira that comes from the space of tradition. Logics, time and spaces are different from thinking the same knowledge. In this endeavor, the present dissertation proposes to dialogue with this different knowledge which is built and socially established to our analysis of how capoeira arrives in the school context as a content of Physical Education. With this came our study questions: how the production of knowledge in Physical Education is organized to propose the teaching of capoeira in basic education? Does the teaching of capoeira in the School Physical Education consider the knowledge of tradition enunciated by the masters of capoeira? In view of these questions, to identify and to discuss the pedagogical treatment of capoeira teaching in Physical School Education are the general objective of this paper, considering the different knowledge that influences the teaching practice. With this purpose, we used as methodological approach the descriptive qualitative research. Inclined to listen what the traditional knowledge had to testify about capoeira and its teaching-learning processes, we interviewed six masters of capoeira as representatives of this manifestation. Seeking to know also what the academic knowledge says, we invoke five books from the field of Physical Education as a production of this universe that indicate how the capoeira can be materialized in the school. Both were analyzed by the content analysis technique proposed by Laurence Bardin. In addition, trying to interweave the results of these analyzes, we interviewed the physical education teachers of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) to understand how they trigger capoeira and if they approach these two matrices of knowledge. We indicate the need to consider the knowledge of capoeira that has consolidated through tradition, since we have identified how much this space legitimizes the teaching processes of this practice. We also recognize the unity that follows the analyzed books and that, in a certain way, they dialogue with the knowledge enunciated by the masters. Regarding the use of capoeira in school, it is noted that it is still fragile, but that there is recognition of IFRN Physical Education teachers about its historical and cultural importance, as well as the incipient dialogue of the school teachers with the universe of tradition.