This paper focuses the case study done in a public school in Rio de Janeiro on the ethical view of students of the eighth and ninth grades of elementary school. The goal was to make a profile which serves as a guidance for further investigations whose purpose is to study ethics in the school. The research was based on the approach of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca and supplemented by contributions from Meyer, who are authors of de field of argument. The main conclusion is that among the subjects studied heteronomy prevails on autonomy, suggesting that the view of ethics takes a conservative profile.
ethical view; elementary school; argument; heteronomy