Ação educativa e economia solidária: Um estudo de caso sobre a Cooperativa de Mineradores de Picuí - PB.

Abstract

Educate and raise awareness among prospectors in a perspective of Solidarity Economy in the Semiarid Region Paraibano presents itself as a significant problem nowadays. However, it does It is necessary to know if in practice the cooperatives have carried out the exercise of Education and Solidarity economy. Based on the activities developed by COOPICUÍ, the objective was, in this work, analyze how this institution works, as well as how they think and how work the miners of "Alto do Urubu" and "Alto da Boa Sorte", located miners in the municipality of Picuí - PB and assisted by the Cooperative. Methodologically, we perform interviews both with the miners - in a number of 3 - and with the president of the COOPICUÍ, in order to understand how COOPICUÍ operates with regard to Cooperative practices. Having been obtained through questionnaires with questions opened and analyzed in light of the content addressed in this study, the results lead us to conclusion that COOPICUÍ does not train garimpeiros as it should, within the the commercialization of ores aimed at the solidarity economy. Also the Cooperative does not provides courses that aim at training prospectors and that prioritize the education of Youth and Adults with an emphasis on the Solidarity Economy theme. In this sense, this makes it difficult or impedes the critical development of the garimpeiro in favor of the formation of a conscience political and ideological on this theme. The absence of this type of education presents itself as an obstacle in the process of building political and economic thinking about the commercialization of extracted minerals, which will allow for intervention and a struggle for better working and citizenship conditions for garimpeiros. we wait that this work can contribute to the debate about the relationship between Education and Solidarity economy.