The article presents some reflections, on the perspective of the historicalcultural psychology, about the aspect of the time in the learning, above all which is carried out in the school education context. The text focuses the problem of the temporal relations between learning and development. By emphasizing the implications of these relations for the periodization of the scooling, the work rises out some arguments for a questionary of the steady periodization in a year, as one in the serialization, or even of the periodization of more school years, as those we are generally calling in Brazil "the learning cycle".
learning and development; periodization of the schooling; Vygotsky