This article discusses the concept of representation on the perspective offered by Henri Lefebvre, with the intention of put it in way to the discussion about the sources and methodological proceedings in the analysis of the "school culture". The discussion was made from a research made by using history teacher's interviews, who had taught between 1965-75 and 1985-95, about the utopic dimension in the instruction of that subject. The representations, according the perspective used, are known not as an element to be overcomed in searching a more concretetruth, but like a strong level of reality, inciting or blocking desires, raising the immobilization or conformisms, causing actions and breaking impulses, causing creative practices or merely reproductive ones, producing simulacrum or annunciating the poiesis, the creative act.
representations; school culture; school discipline; history teaching; utopia