Abstract
This article aims to analyze the meaning of school for adolescents in the context of social vulnerability. It was used as a tool Incomplete Sentences game and for the analyze the quantitative-interpretative model by Alves. Tehe participantes were 12 adolescents between 13 and 15, students from the sixth to the ninth year of a municipal public school of João Pessoa, PB, located in an area of social vulnerability. The data show that the vulnerability context is marked above all by the lack of structural aspects, which require the subject precarious living conditions. As for school, teens recognize it as a place of knowledge and learning, which enables the prospect of a decent future through qualifying, but the identified direction is the school as a privileged space for the encounter with the other, for cultivation affective ties, to exchange, for dialogue, cooperation and fun.
Keywords:
School; adolescents; sense