This research integrates theory and praxis, considering the practice of educational psychologists inserted in the context of a community. It discusses the matter of teenagers and children being in school with the question: "what does this place represent"? The focus of literature on the environment and institution of a school highlights it as being the place of interaction with others. And, due to this interaction with others and with other environments, it's a place where development occurs. The school's job, from educators and educational psychologist, will be to engage in creating opportunities capable of interposing, on behalf of the students, a healthy and liberating development, rendering creative and self-governing individuals. Action research and a field diary were the methods used for collecting data. In conclusion, being at school is, essentially, a place where interactions with others and the manifestation of creative potentials occur, which implies a healthy developoment.
community; school; interaction; liberating development; healthy development