Keeping in mind the apparent scorn toward the history in some investigations and in most special educator's formation, an analysis is presented on the place of the history of the special education in the group of education and pedagogy's histories, and a state of the art on the different ways to make history the special education in Colombie. To conclude, it intends a critical analysis from the history of the pedagogic practice facilitating to think the contributions from the different ways to make history to future forms of historical investigation that contribute to put a high one to the increment and expansion of the give-memorization of the culture, the history, the pedagogy and, for our case, of the special education.
history of the special education; History of the pedagogic practice; special education