The present work departs from the problematization of two aspects. Firstly, a conventional view about youth's political action which deters from investigating new forms and spaces of activism in youth's daily life; secondly, the view of the school as a pre-political space unsuitable for the political. In an empirical investigation conducted with 1,291 students of private and state schools of Rio de Janeiro, we looked for the ways whereby they created a new position for themselves at school despite the prevalent logic of subordination which locates them as learners. The analytical categories resulting from the analysis - the modelling of students' action, the construction of the students' point of view and youth's political-ideological profile and their action at school - show the difficulties and the potentialities of the process of politicizing youth and adults' relationships at school.
youth; school; the politicization of relationships; logic of subordination
