A Trajetória de uma escola cooperada: do ideal cooperativista à realidade de mercado. As vicissitudes da participação de cooperados e professores.

Abstract

This work is case study researches about the trajectory of a cooperative school of basic education, located in São José do Rio Preto, inside of São Paulo state. The study has raised possible reasons in order to explain why in a school of cooperativist proposal and organization and in which parents and teachers who are supposed to take part in this process don t act as expected. Theoretical references have been studied in the national and international literature about cooperativism, political- pedagogical proposal, school administration and market politics. The dissertation begins with a chapter about cooperativist ideology. It goes over the cooperative and the educacional center, political-pedagogic process. The third chapter analyses the statutary alterations, the exhaustion of the assemblies in the last chapter we measure the capitalism and middle class market interferencies and implications in cooperatives in general, especially in COOPEC school. It is concluded that the cooperative democratic administration is seen as threatened by the lack of cooperativist ideology in parents and teachers, the directory staff authoritarism, the market lack of confidence and the reorganization of public school network.