This project was carried out at El Porvenir school, headquarters B, morning shit. It was done with the collaboration of students, teachers, parents and Board members of cycle V. The principal objective of this research is to characterize conceptions of educational actors regarding human development and human values, in order to understand the dehumanization processes that take place there and outline pedagogical 01icntations to help the processes of humanization in the school. The conclusions of this research work are focused on the conceptions of human development of the educational actors associated with both the anthropocentric and the biocentric paradigms. It also explores other alternatives exposed during the investigation. ll1ese alternatives are related to human development approaches that have been built throughout the history of the concept: the traditional approach, the needs approach, the capabilities approach and some of the approaches that have emerged from the necessity generated by the human crisis that has been unleashed by the anthropocentric vision of the world.