Uses and images of the time in the Spanish compulsory secondary education (ESO) students: between the school, the family and the community

This article focuses on the analysis of school time and its relationship with the family and community life experiences of Spanish com-pulsory secondary education (ESO) students. The results revealing ideas such as: The con-ditioning nature of school times on teenagers socialising development and opportunities; the interconnection between the types of school time management and family and community life experience; the distorted vi-sion and, even in some cases contradictory, on the uses and images of school and social time amongst students and secondary school teachers; the opening to the social environ-ment of centres offering their facilities to be used for other non-teaching activities; con-firmation of new technologies as important agents of socialisation. A better understanding of the interde-pendence between teenage school time and socialisation processes allows the formula-tion of new questions and broadens the so-cial, political and academic debate about ways of management for private, educatio-nal, and social time.