Very often in Capoeira sexual harassment happens between men with a high title and a much less experienced women. Usually, when it happens it causes these women to quit from Capoeira; that’s one of the reasons why we don’t hear about it very often. The other reason is hierarchy; as usually students learn such concept in a twisted way and believe they should respect Mestres and Teachers even when they don’t respect themselves or others. Of course not all relationships between teachers and students begins from this situation. There many true relationships around. As there are young students (male and female) who deliberately hook up with Mestres (male and female) for they’re considered ‘celebrities’.

As for your comments, Paulo Freire calls what you mentioned ‘educação bancária’ (banking education) in the sense that, in this system, the role of the teacher is to deposit contents, and the role of the students is to receive them passively. He criticise this logic and say that teachers should build content according to the student’s context and reality, in a way to overcome their knowledge bringing awareness of the mechanisms of oppression around them. So, yes, we do need to engage with our education, and in my view, this goes to our Capoeira education as well.

Abraço!
Eurico