This study discusses the repercussions from the transformation caused by the introduction of the schooling organization in schools, including in management practices, organization and functioning of the school s space, as well as teacher s activities in their profession. The study supports the argument that the learning period experience reorganizes the school within a new logic. It defends the perception that a change of a real functioning of the school in learning periods enters into conflict with the school s culture, whose conception of schooling, time and school space incorporates the logic of the traditional school. The change provokes a destabilization of the habitus of the agents involved in the educational process and makes the school transform itself into a place with tension and conflict, not only among teachers but also among students and their families. The research was based on the analysis of documents, revision of the literature, contextual analysis of the teachers questionnaires with the SAEB 2001 results and field work (observations, interviews and application of questionnaires) in a public school in Niterói/RJ. The thesis presents: a) the description of the learning period insertion in Brazilian education; b) the theoretical discussion that serves as basis for the schooling organization transformation; c) analysis of the quantitative data from the SAEB questionnaires that show the repercussions of the learning period implantation in the Brazilian context, Southeastern region and Rio de Janeiro; d) the repercussions of the learning periods in Niterói, extended to all elementary education, from the analysis of documents from the city s education department and e) the functioning of a school based on learning periods and the implications that derive from them.