Current education faces a critical challenge: the comprehensive formation of children within an increasingly complex and fragmented social context. This research project, developed at Colegio Cafam, Colombia, represents a systematic effort to understand and transform school coexistence dynamics through the strengthening of fundamental values in early childhood. The core of the research reveals a significant disruption in children’s behavior: they exhibit markedly different conduct patterns between school and family environments. This discontinuity is not a superficial phenomenon but a symptom of profound social transformations affecting the ethical and moral formation of children. Behavioral disconnection manifests in multiple dimensions —contradictory behaviors between home and school, inconsistency in the application of norms and values, and a lack of coherence in formative benchmarks. Therefore, within the context and complexity of the topic, the study seeks to recognize that value formation is neither a simple nor linear process; rather, it is influenced by multiple factors, including family transformations, technological influence, changes in social dynamics, and new models of communication and relationships. Colegio Cafam is configured as a fundamental space for reconstructing these formative bridges, not only as a place for knowledge transmission but as a setting for ethical and social construction, with profound implications amid the absence of a structured value framework that leads to the deterioration of social skills, decreased empathy, and reduced capacity for peaceful conflict resolution, thereby weakening the social fabric from its earliest foundations. The project proposes an integral approach that includes a comprehensive diagnosis of school dynamics to identify behavior patterns, from which context-based pedagogical strategies will be designed, engaging the entire educational community. Beyond correcting behaviors, the research has a transformative vision aiming to cultivate a culture of values that shapes ethical citizens by developing socio-emotional skills that build community from early childhood. For this reason, Colegio Cafam becomes a laboratory of social transformation, where each pedagogical intervention represents a seed of cultural change. Consequently, this research is not merely an academic exercise but a profound commitment to comprehensive formation. It seeks to understand, intervene, and transform school dynamics, recognizing that within each child resides the potential to build a more empathetic, understanding, and harmonious society. Values are not decreed; they are cultivated. And this cultivation begins in the early years of life, in spaces such as the classroom, where the seed of humanity finds its first substrate for growth.
Villamizar et al. (Mon,) studied this question.