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RELA, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults | Call for PapersDate limite de soumission des propositions : 31 décembre 2015The label of social economy is broad, encompassing a range of economic activities and organisations which share the attribute of NOT being driven for profit; thus social economy can be seen as an important alternative to modern capitalist production. Some of the practices that today fit into the label have a long history. For example, cooperativism had its origins in the XIX century. As an economic practice it is inspired by the values of autonomy, equality and solidarity that can be made concrete by the foundational principles of modern cooperativism (Birchall, 1997), such as the democratic control of the cooperative by the cooperative members; the fact that decision-making is made independently of the capital contribution of the members; State independency; or the cooperative ties that quite often exist between the different cooperatives. (...)Lire la suite : CFP_Social_Economy(1)