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

some of tyhe principles you will be talking about sound very familiar.
b) the idea that a progressive education departs from the students’ ‘practical experience knowledge’, but it is not limited by such an approach

and
c) the principle that the educator, in his practice, must learn how to talk with the students and not to them, stressing the idea of an exchange process rather than a top-down teaching/learning system

if that means that
b) we need more hands on expirience in our education
and
c) we need more of a “proof” based education system in stead of just accepting so we can better understand what it is for and so better aply it.
are things i heard Jaqued Fresco talk about.

curious about part 2 :)

It’s interesting that you talk about the politics of capoeira and I look forward to seeing the next post! Thank you for your work and interesting articles published on this site