Abstract
The article addresses the importance of research with children and adolescents, in which it is recommended to look at these as subjects, rather than as beings in formation, presenting an analysis of part of the research-intervention material carried out in a child mental health sector who receives a large number of referrals from the school. Part of the historical construction of the concepts of childhood and school, to better understand the current panorama in which there is the relationship between both. Then, based on theoretical assumptions of psychoanalysis, it presents some statements of children and adolescents collected during the intervention research, who express their experiences in school, raising questions about the ideals and social demands that govern school functioning.
Keywords:
Childhood; adolescence; school.