Cooperativismo y Desarrollo (Dec 2017)

Implementation of a study material for economic culture from cooperative education issues

  • Ariel Gámez Iglesias,
  • Laura Elena González Montpellier,
  • Leonardo Ojeda Mesa

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 241 – 251

Abstract

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As part of the process of updating the Cuban economic model, our country has decided to articulate a serie of transformations directed, among other issues, to the strengthening of the cooperative sector, therefore forming human capital with knowledge and skills for this achievement is a challenge that has today higher education, therefore contributing to the learning of the contents related to cooperatives and its transformations in Cuba from the Agricultural Economics subject in the Degree in Education. Economy that is developed in the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of Pinar del Río is a priority to respond to this challenge. In this sense, the main objective of the research is to develop a support material to contribute to the economic culture from the issues of cooperative education in the third year students of this career. The experience was applied in the educational practice with satisfactory results, in addition it was submitted to the criterion of the specialists and they consider it is viable.

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