摘要：Edward P. Thompson was the English historian who, using categories based on Marxism in a
historicized way, emphasized the importance of analyzing human experience (its limits and
possibilities) to study the undetermined course of history. Using Thompson’s ideas, this article
proposes a discussion of the contemporary schooling process, based on the assumption that it is set
in a complex cultural context that is marked by different traditions. This perspective enables us to
think of school cultures as a process and result of the experience of the subjects, of the senses
constructed and shared and/or disputed by the actors who constitute the school. The text highlights
the question of school times, seeking to encourage a historical debate over the role of the school in
the creation and legitimization of social representations, in the production of subjects (whether
schooled or not) and the construction of forms and patterns of socialization, which are
incorporated and remade on a day-to-day basis by teachers, students and parents. This discussion
of schooling, in the perspective of Thompsonian social history, enables people to reflect on the
possibility of another school institution, which permits more open and less prejudiced dialogue
with the myriad of experiences and traditions of its actors.
关键词：Edward P. Thompson; experience; school cultures; school times
