THE COOPERATIVE SYSTEM IN THE AGRICULTURAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

contradictions of the cooperative-school

Abstract

This article results from research supported by CNPq (National Research Council), with the purpose of studying how state agricultural schools, in Rio Grande do Sul, develop cooperative system subject in high school agricultural technical courses. It develops a comparative analysis between two schools – Escola Estadual Técnica Agrícola Guaporé and Escola Estadual Achilino de Santis – both have a cooperative-school. It is based on documentary and bibliography research, visits to schools, observations and interviews. It provides links between school education and the formation that is verified on the productive process, in order to contribute to the discussions about the presence and/or the absence of social relationships in the production system and in the working world, specially agricultural work, in the structure of teaching courses.