Community of practice and green learning. The case of a Permaculture Art Cooperative

MARTIN, ROCÍO BELÉN; DONOLO, DANILO SILVIO; CUGINI, ANA

COODES. Cooperativismo y Desarrollo

Universidad de Pinar del Río

Lugar: Pinar del Río; Año: 2020 vol. 8 p. 263 - 263

2310-340X

his paper addresses the issue of communities of practice in an art and permaculture cooperative. The contributions of the situated theory of learning, the Social Economy and Permaculture, allowed to think of the cooperatives as spaces of social-community interactionsthat promote education and learning for the sustainability of life. In this context, the practice, cooperation and participation acquired transcendence for the co-construction of identities and for a shared development of mastery, interests and trajectories. The case study aimed to learn about relevant aspects of learning that contributed to understanding the emergence, development and consolidation of a cooperative understood as a community of practice; interviews were conducted with members of the art and permaculture cooperative "Reciclando Utopías", with its eco-productive headquarters, located in Rio Ceballos, Cordoba, Argentina. The organization develops its activities respecting the ch