nature and scope of cooperative education
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NATURE AND SCOPE OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONJONATHAN N. GUZMAN
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Robert Owen's New LanarkIn 1817 Robert Owen founded a school in
his cotton mill community of New Lanark in Scotland.
This was based on the principles of co-operation, that children should be at school and not labouring in the mills, that the rules of the playground should be to be happy and help others to be happy.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Schneider's foundationsIn 1965, The Cooperative Education and
Internship Association (CEIA) created "The Dean Herman Schneider Award" in honor of the contributions made by Dean Schneider in cooperative education.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Post-Cincinnati evolutions In 1909, Northeastern University began using co-
op in their engineering program, becoming only the second to do so in this country.
1921, Antioch College had adapted the co-op practices to their liberal arts curricula, for which reason many called co-op the "Antioch Plan.“
In1922, Northeastern University emphasized its commitment to co-op by extending it to the college of Business Administration.
1961, the Ford and Edison Foundations commissioned a study of co-operative education, published as Work-study college programs; appraisal and report of the study of cooperative education.
LEGAL BASIS In fulfillment of the provisions of section 15,
article XII of the Philippine Constitution. To have an agency that would promote the viability and growth of cooperatives as instruments of equity, social justice and sustainable economic development, defining its powers, functions and responsibilities, rationalizing government policies and agencies with cooperative functions, supporting cooperative development, transferring the registration and regulation functions of existing government agencies on cooperative as such and consolidating the same with the authority, appropriate funds, therefore, and for other purposes.
LEGAL BASIS OPEN AND VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP
LEGAL BASIS DEMOCRATIC CONTROL
LEGAL BASIS LIMITED INTEREST ON SHARE CAPITAL
LEGAL BASIS PATRONAGE REFUND
LEGAL BASIS CONTINUING COOPERATIVE EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
LEGAL BASIS COOPERATION AMONG COOPERATIVES
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
COOPERATIVE
EDUCATION1. CONTINUOUS MEMBERSHIP EDUCATION
2. SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR OFFICE BEARERS AND EMPLOYEES
3. PROPER GUIDANCE
TYPES OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATION
Credit Cooperative- promotes thrift and savings among its members and creates funds in order to grant loans for productivity
Consumer Cooperative- the primary purpose is to procure and distribute commodities to member and non-members;
Producers Cooperative – undertakes joint production whether agricultural or industrial;
Service Cooperative- engages in medical, and dental care, hospitalization, transportation, insurance, housing , labor, electric light and power, communication and other services; and
Multi- Purpose Cooperative – combines two (2) or more of the business activities of these different types of cooperatives.