How can we explain the contradictions inside plural societies regarding their way with dealing with differences? Why cultural diversity can be so celebrated at the same time that it can be denied by Brazilian society? What is the role of the geographic space among those themes? Social ways of diminishing different people are created every day, every time someone tries to disqualify the differences that constitute people and their groups. Cultural geography is particularly interested in the conscientiousness about places and about the roles that they perform in the formation of individual and collectives identities. In this theoretical approach, it is observed how do individuals acknowledge and question their own identities, which may be built or crystallized among their representations of places and spatial relations, as they interact with the geographic space. In this work it is defended the idea that territorial identity is a cultural identity, defined through the territory, as it creates an association between both the symbolic field and the geographic space. Therefore, the geographic space constitutes a fundamental part of the social identification processes. With this perspective, as we comprehend that schools are places where representations, world views and values of the students are constructed, the issues related to identities and differences become essential. This work presents a research which has seek to analyze how does the interaction among territorial identity, geographic origin, the plurality presented inside our social context and the school routine take place, as an attempt to contribute to the development of an intercultural pedagogical practice. For this purpose it has been established a dialog between different authors from both the geography and the education fields. It was also been developed a field research with students from the first and second grades of High School of a night course at a public school located at the south district of Rio de Janeiro, in order to comprehend the representations of those individuals regarding the role of territorial identity inside the school routine.