Manifestações culturais : a congada como espaço educativo dos jovens de Pinhões – MG

This work aimed to investigate the relationships that youth establishes with the educational processes characterized by exchanges of knowledge, beliefs and traditions in the space of cultural manifestation of congada in Quilombo remaining in Pine MG. The specific objectives, we sought to investigate what is the youth and so it is related to culture and education; identify what are the beliefs, knowledge and traditions transmitted in the congada environment; understand what adults expect the young and what they expect of themselves for their binding to the tradition. The methodological tools used were interviews, focus groups and observation. We interviewed three adults (two masters of congada and a resident community) and five young adults. The collected data were transcribed and analyzed. Through the analysis, we found that the educational practices that take place in that cultural environment involving adults and young people are strongly linked to the conservation of beliefs, knowledge and values that shape the local tradition. The adults said they hoped the young people who carry the tradition into the future without changing it. Young people, in turn, recognized the traditions as something valuable, they said that the kept the contact to her at willing and demonstrating the desire to keep it, even printing on the new features. We found that, in that environment, the principles that guide the education of young people sit in the will and freedom and that, by uploading the traditions for the future, young people do by choice and not by imposition. Key-words: cultural events, congada, educational practices, youth, tradition.