The movement of solidarity economy: essentialities of the educational prince

Abstract

The objective of this study was to understand the essence of the educational principle that governs the Solidarity Economy Movement (SEM), its senses and meanings, enquiring about its emancipatory character, on the assumption that the educational process in the solidary economy is be able to create new meanings and strategic policy directions, seeking to go beyond its own economic sphere, reaching broader fields in politics and culture. In this search, to the discussion of emancipation and its guiding elements, intellectuals who have education as the object of their philosophical concerns were highlighted. So, we appropriated, mainly, the Italian Antonio Gramsci’s and the Brazilian Paulo Freire’s ideas. The size of the study that harbored this thesis was the Social History, facing a history of crowds or a history of social groups, ie what would be relevant to be studied was certainly not the history of great men, or even the political history of the large states and institutions, but the history of the relations among the various social groups present in a society, particularly in their conflict situations. Therefore, it was possible to affirm that education promote thelearning of emancipatory knowledge that contribute and enable the individual to consciously act, engaging in the struggle for transformation of perverse conditions, unfair and deniers human dignity. In short, it allowed us to conclude that, for this particular study, the socio-educational practices in the SEE collaborate with the perspective of human development for the emancipation considering these non-school spaces as an ideological development barn counterhegemonic.