A look at cooperative education as an emancipatory strategy

Abstract

Giving us permission to rethink educational practices requires us to problematize our daily lives in order to reach a listening to the different voices, to rescue the echoes, the noises and the mere opinions that allow us to transgress the established, which has become rigid and dogmatic. It is of vital importance to educate oneself and others in concrete practices of cooperative work that guarantee the presence of better individuals in terms of their human, personal and social relations, and that place at the center the learning to live together and prepare oneself for a richer collaboration in daily life. In order to propose a project of social change from educational practices, individual and collective initiatives that involve the economic, political, ideological and social aspects should be valued, promoting the full development of the multiple facets of the individual. Therefore, it is possible to consider cooperative education based on experiences of self-management pedagogy, where the main objective is the transformation of educational processes and integrated to the active participation of all interested. Self-management education involves students, teachers, families and the community