Cooperativas de mineração dos municípios do Estado da Paraíba: um campo fértil para educação de jovens e adultos.

Abstract

The objective of this work was to spread reflections on how mining cooperatives from municipalities in the State of Paraíba can contribute to the formulation of public policies aimed at the Education of Youth and Adults (EJA) and the Solidarity Economy. Cooperatives of mining in the municipalities of the state of Paraíba mentioned in this work are: Coopevárzea (Várzea -​​ PB), Cooperjunco (Junco do Seridó - PB), Coogarirnpo (Nova Palmeira - PB), Coomipel (Pedra Lavrada - PB) and Coopermineral (Frei Martinho - PB), and Coopicuí ( PicufPB). There is also the cooperative of miners in the municipality (Asunción - PB, however this entity did not enter the study due to its recent foundation. first it was done an analysis of the changes from the social and economic point of view that the cooperatives of mining made possible to its members. Then, the type of support was analyzed. offered by the States to these entities, the power/capacity to mobilize the six mining cooperatives and the barriers of these entities. We also analyzed the procedures that can be adopted to implement EJA. The six cooperatives of mining in the municipalities of the State of Paraíba constitute a fertile field for implementation of EJA for, among other reasons, agglomerate a significant amount of workers who, on average, have low or no level of education, because they obtain successful articulation and participation of a large number of male and female workers in technical courses, for seeking to solve problems and raise awareness of each installment. increasingly significant that were on the margins of the world of formal work, for having administrative headquarters that would accommodate the holding of classes, as they have as a principle fundamental to the valorization of Education and Information, and mainly due to the need hat these entities have in solving the administrative obstacles that the lack of reading they cause in their pictures.