SOLIDARITY ECONOMY AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN

THE CASE OF THE "ECUMENICAL HOUSE RECRUING LIFE"

Keywords: social practice; conversation wheel; self-awareness; transformation

Abstract

This article reflects a social mediating practice of empowering women protagonists of solidarity-based economic enterprises in the “Ecumenical House Recreating Life” located in a peripheral neighborhood of a city in the interior of the state of Santa Catarina. This is a qualitative, documentary research in which the Conversation Wheel is used as a method of collective participation and reflection. In the light of considerations by authors such as Sampaio, et al., Melo and Cruz, Moura and Lima, Simon and Boeira, Guareschi and Bert, the concepts of solidarity economy and empowerment were reflected with a group of fifteen women distributed in four economic enterprises. sympathetic. The research identified female empowerment as a process of self-awareness and individual and collective transformation through the experience of values, such as group belonging, strengthening interpersonal bonds, reciprocity, sharing difficulties and achievements, self-esteem and commitment of the participants in space where they 'recreate life'.

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Author Biographies

Helena Cristina da Silva, Universidade do Planalto Catarinense - UNIPLAC

Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade do Planalto Catarinense (UNIPLAC). Docente do curso de Psicologia da Universidade do Planalto Catarinense (UNIPLAC).

Geraldo Augusto Locks, Universidade do Planalto Catarinense

Doutor em Antropologia Social pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade do Planalto Catarinense (UNIPLAC).

Mareli Eliane Graupe, Universidade do Planalto Catarinense - UNIPLAC

Doutora em Educação pela Universidade de Osnabrueck, Alemanha. Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação e no Programa em Ambiente e Saúde da Universidade do Planalto Catarinense (UNIPLAC).

Published
2021-02-24
How to Cite
Silva, H. C. da, Locks, G. A., & Graupe, M. E. (2021). SOLIDARITY ECONOMY AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN. Imagens Da Educação , 11(1), 111-132. https://doi.org/10.4025/imagenseduc.v11i1.49048
Section
Políticas Públicas e Gestão Educacional