Processo de incubação em economia solidária à luz de preceitos de autogestão: experiências de estudantes de graduação da OASIS/UFRN

Abstract

The objective of the research is to analyze, in the light of precepts of self - management, incubation process in solidarity economy based on the experiences of students from the group Organization of Learning and Knowledge in Solidarity Initiatives and Studies in the Third Sector (OASIS/UFRN). The OASIS group develops integrated teaching, research and extension activities aimed at strengthening collective initiatives among young people and adults, based on principles of solidarity economy, both through voluntary social projects and the purpose of generating work and income. The methodological course of the research contemplated, preliminarily, a systematic review, in the Capes Periodical Portal and the UFRN Institutional Repository of theses and dissertations, with the purpose of qualifying the state of the art in incubation in solidarity economy. A similar procedure followed to qualify the production in self-management, which allowed the selection of the categories of analysis. This is a qualitative research using a case study strategy. Data were collected through documents and semistructured interviews and observation with undergraduate students of the OASIS group. Subsequently, the information collected was transcribed and processed by basic lexicographic analysis, supported by IRAMUTEQ software, resulting in six classes of the textual corpus: a) contributions; b) experience; c) self-management; d) incubator; e) activity and f) enterprise. These classes were then aligned to the categories of analysis of the self-management organization of Carvalho (1983) and Oliveira (1996), organized by Toledo (2008), namely: decision making, division and participation in work, relationship with partners, knowledge in self-management and solidarity economy, division of labor between planning and execution, personal relations, hierarchy and education. The results point to the social and pedagogical relevance of the type of work carried out by undergraduate students as a contribution to the projects they provide, as well as pedagogical, professional and personal training. Future studies, it is suggested, can progress to systematize the experiences of graduates from both the studied academic group and their counterparts, with the purpose of segmenting and deepening the nature of the competences formed from cohabitation in solidarity economy and access to readings theories and, in an extended way, in the field of social management.