Environmental Education and the focus on conserving natural resources in capoeira

Abstract

This contribution aimed to evaluate the contribution of a socio-environmental workshop on making capoeira musical instruments (“berimbau” and “caxixi”) with practitioners of this cultural activity, in order to analyze the participants’ perceptions about the environmental education and the use of natural resources. The methodology applied was based on questionnaires for the constitution of analyzed data from the content analysis methodology. The results showed that the participants presented perceptions categorized in the Conservative and Pragmatic macrotrends. We emphasize the importance of including environmental education in capoeira for the sustainable use of natural resources used in this cultural practice, as well as a critical understanding of the environmental-society relationship.