A educação na economia solidária e seu potencial emancipatório na construção de uma cadeia produtiva solidária binacional do PET

Abstract

The research aimed to analyze the educational dimension in its role of mediator for construction of a Binational Partnership for Supply Chain, from PET, aiming at the emancipation of the workers collectives of recycling cooperatives and textile sectors, in Brazil and Uruguay. The study concluded that education, though admittedly important for its potential for social transformations was largely absent from the project, despite the fact that some activities have been carried out and the result is more action offered by the incubators. Addition to this fact, it’s remarkable the lack of recognition for the part of workers of transforming action of intrinsic mediations, resulting from experience of organization. Regarding the intensity of the perception of the phenomenon of social emancipation, it is considered that there were, even if incipient, changes in the attitude of workers and enterprises toward the values and principles of social economy, but nothing so significant as to be identified by everyone, equally, and in its diversity. The result was determined by the stage of development of enterprises, as well as by the psychological, economic and cultural constraints, notably influenced by the low level of education and the urgency of the effort to overcome the precarious conditions of the material, which made it difficult in some ways to understand the dimensions of this construct. For developing this research the adopted method is Participatory Action Research. We make salient as reference authors in this thesis: in Education - Freire, Manacorda, Frigotto, Brandão, Streck, Adams and Zitkoski; in Solidarity Economy - Razeto, Guerra, Tiriba, Mance, França, Laville, Novaes and Veronese; in Social Emancipation - Marx, Souza Santos and Tonet; and, in the work’s universe, with important contribution from Gramsci, Mészáros, Dussel, Rebellato e Escobar and others authors.