Educação para o cooperativismo: melhorando as práticas sociais e o desenvolvimento regional

Abstract

This dissertation presents the focus given about the thematic cooperativism at the Science and Technology Federal Institute from Rio Grande do Sul- Sertão Campus. The Campus former student’s vision about cooperativism was analyzed through a questionnaire and oral history. The central objective of the research tried to identify the vision and the focus given to the thematic cooperativism in the Agriculture and Farming Course at IFRS- Sertão Campus and to analyze the content of the subjects with the topic cooperativism. This research is divided in five sections. It was considered the answers that were obtained from the interviewees - 40 Agriculture and Farming former students at IFRS- Sertão Campus who graduated between 1984 and 2008 and who are working in Cooperatives in the region. The collected data demonstrate that the coopetativism subject is part of the course, although it is not the principal one. Thus, it’s concluded that there was a gap or lack of contents in the coopetativism teaching at IFRS- Sertão Campus. Besides, the data points out a dissatisfaction of the interviewees regarding the lack of practical use of cooperativism during the course. In this aspect, the former students suggest the implementation of actions allowing the use of cooperativism, such as with visits to cooperatives, training programs and other forms of effective actions for the concretization of the theory studied in classroom