O “café feminino”: da roça para o mercado exterior e os processos de aprendizagem das mulheres do Grupo Mobi - Poço Fundo- MG

Abstract

This research has as its theme the production and transformation of knowledge outside the formal educational environment. Thus, we will seek to understand the learning practices that took place among a group of women, family farmers in order to understand the relationships between these practices and the construction of equality and progress of the “Mulheres Organizadas Buscando Igualdade” (MOBI) group. For a better understanding of the learning processes experienced by women during their individual trajectory and in the MOBI group, this case study used theoretical support studies on Family Farming, Rural Women, and Social Pedagogy. The methodology was based on qualitative approaches to the case study, supported by bibliographic research and analysis of secondary data about the group produced by the media, as well as documentary analysis of materials produced by the group itself. For data collection, we conducted a focus group, as well as participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The case study was carried out in the city of Poço Fundo-MG, more specifically with women producers of branded coffee “Feminino”, cooperated at COOPFAM and with an artisan member of the group. The study identified a complexity of learning, that due to the great network of MOBI supporters, occurred both in different contents and concerning the group's organizational process, which signaled the focus on the search for equality between men and women, in different dimensions. Learning refers to individual issues, as much as to the family, the Cooperative, market relations, as well as the group's organizational process, relations with educational institutions. It is noteworthy that the results of this research may contribute to future projects by the Department of Women and Youth at COOPFAM.