Cooperatives are enterprises owned by the people who use their services, such as the workers or consumers. In East Boston, cooperatives work to ensure adequate housing and health care, work with dignity, and resistance to discrimination and wealth inequities. Democratic education is central to their operation, for residents in the community, the…

The research aims to identify the key challenges facing today's youth and determine how cooperative organizations can better support and engage with youth in a way that addresses their mutual interests and needs in the current and rapidly changing social and economic environment. The authors analyze the main problems facing today's youth and ways…

Purpose: The objectives are to show how professional orientation towards cooperatives, as a universal model of social enterprise, stems from a different fit to professional preferences for other kinds of business forms; and to show how specific training has an impact on the change in professional orientation. Design/methodology/approach: The…

Objective: Cooperative housing has been linked to enhanced well-being, with growing interest in the grant-of-use (GOU) model, which emphasises collective ownership, shared daily life and the joint management of care. However, the specific benefits of GOU housing for older women remain underexplored. This study examines the relationship between…

There is strong evidence that co-curricular experiential learning activities positively contribute to the development of well-rounded and successful engineers. However, discussions and surveys conducted during the 5th BME Educational Summit in May 2024 revealed that co-curricular activities--such as optional engineering internships, co-ops,…

The aim of this paper is to study the key points of managing cooperative credit unions in south Thailand and how to strengthen the education and knowledge of the management team, staff and members. This paper is based on a qualitative method via in-depth interviews and a focus group with members and committees of cooperative credit unions in south…

The public schools of Arkansas, open enrollment public charter schools, and education service cooperatives, 2022-2023 actual and 2023-2024 budgeted, is presented here. The rankings of selected items of the public schools of Arkansas, 2022-2023 actual, are also included. The school districts are listed according to Local Education Agency (LEA)…

This article describes and theorizes the development and pedagogical practices of alternative high school programs for adult workers in cooperatively run factories in Argentina.

Purpose: This study reviewed the context, organisational arrangements and institutional changes for the operation of a smallholder dairy development project, comprising multi-stakeholders in three locales. The objective was to have a comparative assessment of the project dynamics and to draw lessons for improving its performance.…

Purpose: This paper analyzes the impact of agricultural extension on the production of Brazilian family farmers, breaking down differences among extension providers. Design/Methodology/Approach: An Output Distance Function was estimated for Brazilian family farming using 5,463 municipality-level observations from the 2017 Brazilian Agricultural…

As experiments and models of participatory, sustainable living, ecovillages demonstrate how to enact just, cooperative, and regenerative economic and social constructs, as alternatives to 'unsustainable' capitalist economies and consumerist/individualistic lifestyles. Work is central to these enactments, which provides an opportunity to examine…

A significant section of the alternative food initiative (AFI) literature has expressed concerns about the predisposition of some research to assume neoliberal outcomes from particular AFI practices. As a counterpoint to this, there has been a call for analysis tools that will allow for a more nuanced understanding of the complexities and…

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among six middle-class families in a Copenhagen housing cooperative, this article explores cultural ideologies of childhood, parenting, and individual freedom in Scandinavia as evoked in daily negotiations between parents and children. Combining language socialisation studies of family discourse and anthropological…

Surrounded by stories of underrepresented and first-generation students lagging behind or switching out of STEM majors, three women saw an opportunity to shift the narrative. They created a new online speaker series, "The Next 10 Years: Helping STEM Students Thrive"; where faculty, staff, and students could share ideas, learn from one…

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