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Social change strategies grounded in theory help change agents to be more effective in their efforts. This study attempts to make explicit the links between public education efforts and the social change goals of non-profit organizations through an examination of both radical humanist thought and various social change theories. / This thesis maintains that public education is an essential component of lasting change, serving eleven identifiable roles in the social change process. Of particular note, education can serve to challenge the dominant corporate paradigm and to develop an informed, critical, and more active citizenry. Education can also help create an environment conducive to achieving systemic changes. It is argued that civil society organizations are well situated to play a leading role in the creation of a more just and healthy society. Public education is proposed here as an approach that shows considerable promise to move us in that direction.

Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-07-25T13:04:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JOSEFA DENISE DE FARIAS - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCS) 2016.pdf: 3861489 bytes, checksum: 8e738fe2aca1b59a9482ef60363de044 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T13:04:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOSEFA DENISE DE FARIAS - DISSERTAÇÃO (PPGCS) 2016.pdf: 3861489 bytes, checksum: 8e738fe2aca1b59a9482ef60363de044 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / O presente estudo buscou analisar as atividades de confecções no cariri paraibano, sobretudo as percepções de mudanças dos sujeitos acerca das novas formas de trabalho que têm ocorrido com a inserção de unidades de confecções neste território. O foco desse trabalho foi identificar e analisar como os sujeitos veem algumas mudanças ocorridas em tal espaço após a introdução da costura oriunda do Polo de Confecções de Santa Cruz do Capibaribe. Procuramos então perceber a partir de um recorte feito no pequeno município de Coxixola situado no Cariri Ocidental, por meio entrevistas com costureiros e costureiras, bem como com alguns fabricantes e o gestor do município, o que essas unidades de produção provocaram de mudança na vida deles e de suas famílias, uma vez que trata-se de famílias que viviam da agricultura de subsistência e hoje buscam aliar o escasso retorno de renda originado da agricultura ao trabalho da costura, que tem sido o sustento de dezenas de famílias nesta região, tornando-se cada vez mais relevante para a economia local. Ao longo da pesquisa trabalhamos três pontos acerca da visão dos trabalhadores da região: 1) sobre as novas formas de trabalho no ambiente rural, mostrando assim a coexistência entre a agricultura de subsistência e a costura no ambiente pesquisado constatando que mesmo essas famílias tendo a necessidade de introduzir uma outra atividade em seu meio, procuram aliá-la à agricultura para não perderem suas raízes; 2) o desenvolvimento das unidades de confecção neste espaço, fazendo um pequeno apanhado de como a costura foi introduzida e se desenvolveu na região; e 3) como os trabalhadores percebem as principais mudanças na região a partir da inserção da costura. / The present study sought to analyze the garment activities in the Paraíba cariri, especially the perceptions of changing that the subjects have about the new forms of work that have occurred with the insertion of confection units in this territory. The focus of this work was to identify and analyze how the subjects see some changes occurred in such space after the introduction of sewing in the Santa Cruz do Capibaribe. We then try to perceive from a cut made in the small municipality of Coxixola located in Western Cariri, through interviews with seamstresses, as well as with some manufacturers and the manager of the municipality, what these production units caused to change their lives and of their families, since these are families living from subsistence agriculture and today they seek to combine the scarce return of income from agriculture to the work of sewing, which has been the livelihood of dozens of families in this region, has become increasingly relevant to the local economy. Throughout the research we worked on three points about the vision of workers in the region: 1) about the new forms of work in the rural environment, thus showing the coexistence between subsistence agriculture and sewing in the researched environment, noting that even these families having the need to introduce another activity in their midst, seek to combine it with agriculture so as not to lose its roots; 2) the development of the confection units in this space, giving a brief look at how the seam was introduced and developed in the region; and 3) how workers perceive the major changes in the region from the insertion of the seam.