Mestre Ferradura Explained

Mestre Ferradura
Native Name:	Omri Ferradura Breda
Birth Date:	January 22, 1976
Alma Mater:	Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Occupation:	President of the Brazilian Capoeira-Education InstituteDirector of the Brincadeira de Angola Project

Omri Ferradura Breda, commonly known as Mestre Ferradura (born January 22, 1976), is a Mestre de Capoeira, pedagogue, president of the Brazilian Institute of Capoeira Education, and director of the Brincadeira de Angola project.

Biography

Mestre Ferradura started practicing Capoeira in 1991, at Rio de Janeiro, at Mestre Marrom's Capoeira Angola. He started teaching Capoeira in 1993. Mestre Ferradura received his graduation by the Capoeira Master Henrique Anastacio de Jesus, the Mestre Marrom, in 2010.^[1] He graduated in pedagogy from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and specialized in Early Childhood Education. He is the founder and coordinator of Brincadeira de Angola Project, which has the purpose of the playful teaching of capoeira applied to early childhood education.^[2] The Brazilian Institute of Capoeira Education, project which he's president, he helps teachers to understand the concepts of Capoeira Education.^[3]

Contributions to the Capoeira Education field

Mestre Ferradura possesses broad projection while defending the Brincadeira de Angola method, which is a pedagic-philosophic based on the educational potential, applying Capoeira as a transformative pedagogic practice in autonomous subjects formation, and deconstruction of racism through the valorization of the African roots.^{[4] [5]} The basis of the methology is the ancestral knowledge of Capoeira, passed on from master to disciple in a traditional way. By balancing these popular and academic knowledge, the Brincadeira de Angola method suggest a Capoeira Pedagogy.^[6] Another contribution by Mestre Ferradura to the Capoeira community was the production of "Movimento Novo" (New Movement), along with Mestre Itapuã Beira-Mar, which brought discussions around the resulting violence from the contact of Capoeirists from different schools and proposes a pacific interaction to the new generations.^{[7] [8]}

Research and academic production

In the past decade, Mestre Ferradura has acted in the formation of teacher and promoting his pedagogic methodology in Brazil and Europe. His influences include Paulo Freire, Muniz Sodré, Marshall Rosemberg, Emília Viotti da Costa, Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Thomas E. Skidmore, Nestor Capoeira, Michel Foucalt, A.S. Neil, Terry Orlick, and Peter Slade.^[9] In his academic outreach, Mestre Ferradura travels and joins a number of formation programs and training of teachers and mestres in Brazilian and international Universities. Among the institutions which his courses and symposia have been ministrated, are included UFRR, UFBA, USP, and Museu da República.^{[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]}

His most notable articles are:

• Capoeira as a transformative educational practive (2010)
• Capoeira as pedagogic practice in early childhood education (2015)^[16]
• Capoeira as a libertarian education for the formation of autonomous subjects - the teaching practices in Rio de Janeiro's Rodas de Rua (2019)^[17]
• Brazilian racial ideology: the subjacent racism in comics magazines (2015)^[18]

His works are academic references in authors of varied fields of pedagogy and studies in the African matrix, influencing and being cited in a series of monographies in Brasil.^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]}

Social action

Mestre Ferradura's participations in social action includes occasional participation in activities of the Third Sector to regular governamental projects, such as:

• At the Benjamin Constant Institute, with a project of educating Capoeira to blind children^[25]
• At DEGASE, with institutionalized teenagers serving socio-educational measures^{[26] [27]}
• The Capoeira de Rua, with homeless people^[28]
• The Brazilian Capoeira-Education Institute for the Peace, in partnership with Gingando Pela Paz, UNESCO, and Viva Rio^[29]

Artistic contributions

In the artistic fields, Mestre Ferradura has worked in a variety of direction of Capoeira, like:

• Intrépida Trupe, in the Kronos show, having participated in the front commission of Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, which won the Tamborim de Ouro Award in 1999.
• With Paola Barreto Leblanc, when signed the direction of Capoeira and writing the script of the "Maré Capoeira" movie.^[30]
• With João Falcão, director of "Ópera do Malandro", when he did body conditioning of the troupe at Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro.

External links

• Portal da Capoeira
• Instituto Brasileiro de Capoeira-Educação
• Projeto Brincadeira de Angola
• Capoeira Rio de Janeiro

Notes and References

1. Web site: Portal da Capoeira. www.capoeira.gov.br. 2020-02-27.
2. Web site: CEPE USP.
3. Web site: Mestre Ferradura. IBCE. 2020-02-28. en-US.
4. Web site: Capoeira na escola é uma janela para a desconstrução do racismo. CEERT. 2020-02-28. pt-br.
5. Web site: Mestre Ferradura's Great Insight on the Importance of Capoeira's African Roots. www.capoeiranewsonline.com. 2016-09-07. 2020-02-28. Rolha. Capoeira.
6. Web site: 17 de julho de 2019 - Iê Camará. tribunadoceara.com.br. 2020-02-28.
7. Web site: Capoeira: O Último Movimento Novo (Com Vídeos). Capoeira - Rio. 2019-01-03. 2020-02-28. pt-BR.
8. Book: Capoeira . Nestor . Capoeira: pequeno manual do jogador . 1998 . Editora Record . 978-85-01-04879-0 . pt.
9. Web site: Educação Pública - Biblioteca - Educação Física e jogos. www.educacaopublica.rj.gov.br. 2020-02-28.
10. Web site: Mestres Dunga e Ferradura fazem oficinas de capoeira na UFRR. Globoesporte.com.
11. Web site: O ensino e a difusão da capoeira foi debatido no XV Enecult – ENECULT. 2020-02-28. en-US.
12. Web site: CEPEUSP - Centro de Práticas Esportivas da USP – Simpósio Internacional de Capoeira. www.cepe.usp.br. 2020-02-28.
13. Web site: Mestre Ferradura. Mapas Culturais. 2019-05-08. 2020-02-28. pt-BR. Mapas. Culturais.
14. Web site: Projeto Capoeirando terá aulas gratuitas para o público infantil. Correio do Estado. 2020-02-28. en.
15. Web site: Goiânia recebe curso de Formação Continuada em Capoeira na Educação Infantil Revista Zelo. revistazelo.com.br. 2020-02-28.
16. Web site: Revista Educação Pública - A Capoeira como prática pedagógica na Educação Infantil. educacaopublica.cecierj.edu.br. 2020-02-28. pt-br.
17. Web site: Revista Educação Pública - Capoeira e educação libertária para formação de sujeitos autônomos – as práticas de ensino nas rodas de rua do Rio de Janeiro. educacaopublica.cecierj.edu.br. 2020-02-28. pt-br.
18. Book: Campos, Abigail Ferreira. Investigação Científica nas Ciências Humanas 3. O Conceito de Ideologia Nas Histórias Em Quadrinhos. 2019-10-17. Atena Editora. 283–290. 10.22533/at.ed.18519171026. 978-85-7247-718-5.
19. Concepções de origem do ser humano e os conhecimentos das religiões de matriz africana. Repositório UFRRJ.
20. A capoeira como ferramenta metodológica na educação infantil: um relato de práticas educativas. Monografias UFRN.
21. Uma intervenção psicopedagógica para educadores sociais de capoeira. IV Congresso Nacional de Educação - CONEDU.
22. CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA CAPOEIRA NO PROGRAMA MAIS EDUCAÇÃO PARA A PROMOÇÃO DA CULTURA AFRO-BRASILEIRA: a experiência de um Centro Integrado de Educação Pública em Santa Bárbara d'Oeste/SP. Repositório de Monografias da UNISAL.
23. O convívio da diferença: práticas biopolíticas no jogo de dentro e no jogo de fora. Respositório de Dissertações PUC-SP.
24. CAPOEIRA ANGOLA NA ESCOLA MUNICIPAL NOVA MORADA: perspectivas e práticas educativas na construção das identidades culturais. Repositório do Programa de Pós-Graduação da UFPE.
25. Web site: Alunos fazem exibição de capoeira aos pais. www.ibc.gov.br. 2020-02-28.
26. Bueno. Luzia. 2005-12-15. Gêneros da Mídia Impressa no Material Didático e a Notícia Adaptada. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem. 8. 2. 9. 10.5433/2237-4876.2005v8n2p9. 2237-4876. free.
27. Web site: Carioca nota 10: Mestre Ferradura. pt-BR.
28. 2019-12-11. Vidas Invisíveis: série mostra um novo perfil dos moradores de rua. R7.com. pt-BR.
29. Web site: Gingando pela Paz Haiti completa quatro anos. Viva Rio. 2012-10-01. 2020-02-28. pt-br.
30. Web site: Maré Capoeira. Porta Curtas. 2020-02-28. pt-br. PortaCurtas.