Educação cooperativista: ações nas cooperativas agropecuárias do município de Boa Vista em Roraima

Abstract

The cooperative education provides transformation, a keyword in educational field. This transformation happens by the intracooperated people dialogue and, even by the intercooperated ones. Because of that, this dissertation aims to analyze the perception of the cooperative´s managers and associated about the cooperative education in Roraima, focusing on agricultural industry. In this configuration, the associated himself is in charge of being the one who is able to change his own reality, especially dealing with the minor farmers. This corporatist spirit can change the farmers’ economic and social situation who are willing to associate in order to get better life’s condition. In order to accomplish the objective of this paper, it was done some quantitative and qualitative researches, so that the collection of the data would be faithful to the real perception of the cooperatives managers, who accepted the researcher’s invitation. Semi structured questions were applied to the managers (the chairman and directors) in three cooperatives and questions were also applied in assemblies to the associated. It was observed that the perception of all of them is similar, since both of them recognize the importance of the cooperative education, though the educational actions, in the most, are restricted in trainings and courses, which is an insipid vision of the cooperative education. It was also observed the potential of this kind of enterprise in Brazil, and for being possible to create new branches and keep the ones which exist, the cooperatives must rethink their conception of what is cooperative education, as well as understand in an effective manner the reality of their associated.