Abstract
The article aims to discuss theoretically how the school acts in the appropriation of scientific concepts and how this action can be alienated. This study is justified because it brings contribution to Psychology and Education, evidencing thinking by concepts as an essential cognitive element of the process of knowledge elaboration. From Historical-Cultural Psychology the role of the school in the mediation of the development of spontaneous and scientific concepts in the inter-functional system of consciousness is evidenced. Moreover, how this mediating role and this development can be alienated by present pedagogical tendencies, such as the Learning to Learn Pedagogies, considered the ideological expression of the materiality of the contemporary class society. Finally, he argues that the school should stick to systematized knowledge and not to spontaneous knowledge; to the knowledge derived from human historical and social theorization and practice, and not from individual pragmatic knowledge; to totalizing knowledge and not to fragmented knowledge.
Keywords:
Concepts; education; Historical Cultural Psychology