Education and cooperation are two social practices which somewhat contain each other. We can identify cooperative practices in the former and educative ones in the latter. Both entangle and empower each other. Organizing cooperation demands communication of interests, objectives from its actors, on which they need to talk, argue and decide. Education happens in that process of interlocution between each one's knowledge. Therefore, there is a strict relationship between the two phenomena: in cooperative practice, beyond its purposes and specific interests, knowledge, learning, education are produced; in educational practice, as a complex process of human relations, cooperation is produced. Thus, cooperative practices in school can become privileged "pedagogical spaces", to which subjects acquire awareness of social life's several dimensions.
Cooperativism; education; organization; co-operative; school cooperativism; cooperative education