Dribbling violence through sport: tensions in the gender approach with young people from a social project

Abstract

This article aims to describe and analyze, in the light of Freirean pedagogy, some tensions identified in the approach to gender and violence issues by a social project in Rio de Janeiro.Throughout the field research, the difficulty of deepening the themes, supposedly central tothe proposal, was noted, identifying a mismatch between the “banking” education formatadopted by the responsible institution and the problematizing and liberating characteristicof the theoretically proposed approach on gender equity and the construction of non-violentand more inclusive masculinities