Cooperativismo educacional: gestão solidária na Cooperativa Educacional de Uberlândia

Abstract

This article aims at discussing the emergence of ―Cooperativa Educacional de Uberlândia ―- CEU (Uberlândia Educational Cooperative) as a way of cooperative management in education as a result of the contemporary transformations in the realm of production and work. The crisis in the Welfare State, the re-articulation of the productive forces and the neoliberal response have put together a historic frame of reorganization of social production forms, allowing cooperativism to be taken up once more as an alternative survival modality in the capital internal order. This way, possible advances for educational cooperativism will be discussed as well as its organizational, political and ideological dilemmas that strengthen the discussion about the management of schools as a likely space for a rupture with the mercantilist logics of education and the precariousness of the docent work, according to the methodological approach bound to the historical and dialectical materialism. Thus, this study attempts to bring about the debate and discuss cooperativism in its emancipatory possibilities or the ones of fitting in the capital cumulative logics, taking educational cooperativism as one of its manifestations.festations.