The present work intends to present the results of a research focussed on the comprehension of school courses and family mobilization in the popular class. The results were obtained from 34 interviews with families living in a peripheral neighborhood of Florianópolis. The analysis highlighted the importance of school courses as a process and their interactions with social and symbolic factors and practices defined by the individuals. Analysis also reveals distinguished rationalities about the socialization and schooling practices of children.
family; schools