This article emerges from a research project carried out during 2008 and 2009. It presents the final results obtained from an interview applied to administrators, teachers and graduates of education programs for science teachers at seven public universities in Colombia. We compared the hypothesis that the social history of science education in a country is linked to the social history of science in that country. We have characterized the dominant conception of science in the second half of the twentieth century in these education programs. The authors reviewed the most relevant cultural, political, economic, scientific and technological events around the world during this period and their effects on the country. It was found that the prevailing cultural tradition, the internal and external history that made science education, continues to be the same.
Science education; Epistemology; Culture; History; Didatics technology and pedagogy
