CREATING RITUALS: Capoeira, black children's literature and other knowledge as instruments for children's socialization

Abstract

This work reports educational processes that took place between a pedagogue with a great interest in children's literature, a sociologist trained in the practices of capoeira angola and a heterogeneous group of children from 4 to 12 years old who attend an non-governmental organization in the city of Itirapina, SP. In this process, academic knowledge such as pedagogy and sociology were combined with non-academic knowledge such as capoeira angola and literature. The result was the construction of a series of small rituals that, in turn, constituted a space for socialization that brought psychic security for children to express their subjectivity in a cooperative and non-violent way. With regard to sociological and pedagogical knowledge, these rituals were constructed from theoretical contributions from the sociology of childhood, especially the category of socialization processes, within which the child is considered an active agent in becoming a person. The results obtained from the children's reports and from direct observations, show a significant increase in the intersubjective relationship based on cooperation.

Keywords: Capoeira; black children's literature; child; socialization