SANTOS, M. E. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2811032753471891; SANTOS, Maria Erimar Sousa dos.
Resumen:
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.