This article presents the discussions and partial results of a four-year longitudinal research, developed in a Brazilian elementary school. The main goal was to investigate if a project-based curriculum, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a reference, could help the school to reorganize its spaces, times and relationships, contributing to students' ethical development. As a result, besides the description of strategies and the systematization of procedures that may lead schools to succeed in implementing such proposal, we have demonstrated how an educational process based on values can help students to develop greater ethical and sociopolitical consciousness.
project-based curriculum; education on values; human rights
