Education

Concept

Cooperatives of education professionals, students, parents of students, educational entrepreneurs, and similar entities.

The role of an educational cooperative is to maintain a school. Schools must comply with current legislation, be managed by hired specialists, and by counseled by a board of education council, comprised of parents and teachers. By working together, the final product arises: preparation of students who are ready to face the challenges of the modern world, acting as agents of history. In the specific case of Educational Cooperatives, it is important to interpret the enterprise more from a social and ideological standpoint, than from an economic perspective.

The common good of this sector is the educational development of children and adolescents, which is not guided by profits or surplus funds; success is measured in a totally different manner than other cooperative-related activities.

This sector is comprised of teachers' cooperatives, who get together to provide educational services; agricultural college students' cooperatives who, besides contributing to maintain the school, often produce surpluses for the market, but whose main objective is the cooperative development of its members; parents' cooperatives, which aim to provide the best education to their children, managing a school or hiring teachers; and of similar types of cooperatives.