Management of the school principal in the strengthening of social values in times of pandemic: case study: Liceo "Los Almendros", of the
La Florida commune of the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile
RIAEE – Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação, Araraquara, v. 18, n. 00, e023015, 2023. e-ISSN: 1982-5587
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21723/riaee.v18i00.17733 4
inculcate, guide, and strengthen the values that at the social level should prevail in citizen
behavior.
Therefore, social values should be understood as a social construction, where they are
produced thanks to the permanent interaction of family, society, environment and the
educational environment in which human beings develop, which allows them to act in society
in a harmonious way (PINTO-ARCHUNDIA, 2018).
Based on such considerations, education in values should promote significant changes
that lead to the formation of a human being capable of developing in a pluralistic society in
which he can critically practice freedom, tolerance, solidarity, honesty, justice, morality,
respect, responsibility, qualities that together lay the individual and social foundations in the
development of a healthy coexistence.
Therefore, the management of the governing body is geared toward action that demands
the linking of academic skills that lead to changes and transformations in schools; in this
articulation, leadership, communication, interpersonal relationships, academic performance,
and social values must be applied (ROJAS; MARTINEZ; RIFFO, 2020).
It is in the hands of the directors to assume a management model that responds to these
demands, making their institution a space where teamwork, planning, management,
participation, evaluation and the strengthening of values are daily practices, in turn, goals that
contribute to the achievement of the institutional mission and vision, since it is no myth that
many institutions need to improve their educational quality, rescuing the social function of
education, moreover, offering a contextualized education that prefers the integral development
of the people to be attended, as well as enriching the cognitive, emotional, social,
communicative, and spiritual aspects of each individual.
In this sense, school institutions have been affected by technological, environmental,
political, and social changes that have disrupted managerial work and, specifically, the
strengthening of social values. The management team has implemented tools and strategies to
improve this situation, without having positive results (VIVAS; MARTÍNEZ; SOLÍS, 2020).
In Chile, school principals do not escape the reality that has been reflected upon, which
is why many institutions, due to the transitional times they are living through as a result of the
Covid-19 pandemic, have had to implement remote or virtual education, using social-emotional
containment tools to guide values in students and thus in teacher training.
Now, in the metropolitan region, in the Liceo Los Almendros, in the Comuna de La
Florida, through non-formal interviews, conducted by the Zoom platform, some directors of the