Question:
I am a member of a "student-faculty research cooperative" at Florida State University which recently celebrated its third anniversary. The co-op's primary purpose is to provide research and consulting opportunities to graduate students, working in collaboration with faculty members, to complement our in-class studies in what we believe is a new form of graduate education. We are affiliated with the Center for Policy Studies in Education, and most of the student members are in programs in Adult Education and International/ Intercultural Development Education. We have conducted projects for USAID, UNESCO, the Florida Department of Rehabilitative Services, etc. We have recently begun a major effort in internal and external development, trying to establish a viable organizational & decision-making structure which will be preserved long after the departure of current members. Part of this effort involves networking with similar groups (in the US or abroad) who subscribe to co-operative principles but do not necessarily fit into a more "traditional" category, e.g. residential or retail co-ops. We have discovered the websites for the U. of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and the International Cooperative Alliance, but are hoping to make contact with some actual, live human beings--especially in preparation for a presentation we will be making at the upcoming meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society in March.
Any suggestions, comments???
Answer:
I'm actually looking forward to do a master degree in research in cooperative. I am a teacher for kids and i think that in these actual social transitions we have to look forward to colaborate thrue coopération in these changes. And i apply this phylosophie for the education situation. But the more i search the more i realize that there's not a lot of co-ops project associated with education. if you know some links , i would like to know them. I suppose that when you talk about education your work is specifically with adult: work-formation co-ops. I'm i rignt?
