Programa de educação em células cooperativas: Prática e prece pela emancipação social de pentecoste

Abstract

The present work has the experience of Cooperative Cells Education Program (PRECE) in the countryside town Pentecoste CE as the research object. Through this program, students of popular origin are entering the public university and returning to their origin communities in order to develop social projects concerning education, economic development and community empowerment. We could verify that in our theoretical-empirical work PRECE appears as a social network of community development, guided by reliability and cooperation ties among its members. We firstly aimed to demonstrate the experience of PRECE as an active manifestation of social capital formation in the Brazilian Northeast semiarid. Afterwards, we aimed to prove the importance of a transformational and emancipatory education as a fundamental vector to local development. Even acting in a town rooted in political misconduct which is reinforced by an exceeded local power structure, PRECE has been inducing the formation of leaders committed with the transformation of their local reality and the social emancipation of their communities.