Abstract

TOSTES, Luiza Fraga; MARTINS, Rodrigo Lema Del Rio  and  MELLO, André da Silva. Claimed citizenship of children in institutional care: experiences built through the practice of capoeira in the city. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2025, vol.20, e24808.  Epub Sep 30, 2025. ISSN 1809-4309.  https://doi.org/10.5212/praxeduc.v.20.24808.063.

This article analyzes socio-educational work with children in social care, mediated by capoeira [Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music, and play], which sought to promote their claimed citizenship in the urban context. This is an Existential Action Research study carried out with ten children, between four and 14 years old, residing in a Casa Lar [residential group home for children in protective custody] from July to December 2021. Data were produced through field diaries, photographs, drawings, and children’s statements, emerging from the pedagogical relationships established with them in the teaching of capoeira. Based on the assumptions of the Sociology of Education and Childhood, as well as Everyday Life Studies, four episodes are analyzed in which the children’s agency was valued through their relationships with the practice of capoeira in the city, positively highlighting a model of citizenship in which subjects are capable of thinking and acting for themselves.

Keywords : Embodied practice; Childhoods; Urban space.

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