The jongo (or caxambu, or tambu, or catambá) is an afro- decendents population s cutural practice - bantu s people - present in some brazilian Southeast region states (Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo). Children s entrance in this practice, according to people who play the jongo, is recent, as these children use to be forbiden to participate of the ritual until a few years ago. This work has as objective to comprehend the value s transmition, conception and practice present in jongo in two groups from Rio de janeiro s State: the Grupo Cultural Jongo da Serrinha, in Madureira, in the city of Rio de Janeiro and the Comunidade Negra de São José da Serra, in Valença, state s inland. This research - built in the interface between the anthropology and education - looked for comprehending how socialization/cutural transmition s process happens, having as locus jongo s practice, also looking for interweaving the relations between childhood s presence and practice s changes in these two groups.