摘要:This work is part of the research carried through in the doctorate in applied Social Sciences to the Education
finished in 2004 in the UNICAMP. Search to establish relations between popular culture, education and leisure,
being identified the capoeira and the samba, as two of the most significant manifestations of the popular
culture, in that it refers to to its possibilities to be inserted as contents in education processes not-deed of
division, over all to those come back toward the favored layers less of the population. We analyze here some
characteristics of the samba and the capoeira, over all in relation to the forms of transmission of knowing them
deriving of the universe of the popular culture, where the memory, the ritualidade, the orality, the ancestry and
the temporality if present as basic categories, leaving of the community concept, while an important reference
for the understanding of the logic that guides the educative processes in these spaces.