A STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS NON-FORMAL DEVELOPED IN SOLIDARITY ECONOMY AND FEMINIST NETWORK OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE
Formal Education; Social Movements; Women.
This paper aims to conduct a study on the educational practices of non-formal character, developed with the productive groups of women who are part of Xique Network Xique Marketing, supported by the project Solidarity Economy Network and Feminist Rio Grande do Norte. The research aims to verify that the non-formal education processes experienced by women may contribute to the development of economic autonomy, and ownership of the change agent status in the spaces where they are inserted. Therefore, the central analysis will be based on non-formal education benchmarks developed by Coombs (1975), Gohn (2008) and Ghanem and Trilla (2008) and also in will base on Amartya Sen (2000), to understand how and as such processes can influence the development, understood as the expansion of capabilities and exercise freedoms. In this regard, we will consider in the analysis of two instances that Sen termed instrumental freedoms: The economic facilities and political freedoms. The methodological aspects of the empirical work will prioritize the study of comparative case, using the experience of two groups of women, segments and different territories, more specifically: Açu-Mossoró and Mato Grande, have qualitative and semi-structured interviews and focus group will be used for data collection. Experience investigated is the project Solidarity Economy Network and Feminist, run nationally in nine states of Brazil and Rio Grande do Norte supports and encourages 15 groups of women who make up the Xique Network Xique Marketing, located in the region of Mossoro and San Miguel Yummy.