摘要：This paper aims at apprehending and understanding male and female pupils’ oral narratives
observed in classrooms of a public school – which offers ordinary Elementary School and Adult
High School – located in São Paulo state’s countryside. For this purpose, it was used Adorno’s
and Walter Benjamin’s ideas as a theoretical frame of reference, correlated with a methodology
of qualitative nature. For that reason, was employed the concepts of Erfahrung – which refers to
the human experience formed by tradition in artisan societies and passed on through oral
narratives associated with the pre-capitalist production mode, and Erlebnis, which is the human
experience shaped by the Cultural Industry and the capitalist production mode. On the basis of
that theoretical premise, classes of Portuguese and History were observed, which was a
methodological strategy that allowed to get examples of oral expressions made up of elements
that can help us to understand how people’s experiences are formed in our days.
