Los primeros licenciados en Ciencias Biológicas en Colombia (1935-1950).

Abstract

This article seeks to make visible some considerations and elements related to the training of Biology teachers in Colombia, which are taken from the research work carried out in the framework of the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education of the Uni-versidad Pedagógica Nacional. From a historical approach, the aim is to understand the relationships that have made possible the emergence of the first graduates in Biological Sciences in the country. Thus, issues such as the updating in modern pedago-gical methods, the increase in the population of qualified teachers for the attention of the regions, the improvement of working conditions, the positioning of science as a key element of modernization, and the concern for life regarding its regulation, are fundamental aspects to understand the relevance of biology at the time and need to have teachers trained in this knowledge. These relationships become important to the extent because it allows us to problematize and question the training of biology teachers at present, to place under suspicion its possible displacement due to the few training programs that exist and the inter-disciplinary view that is installed from the natural sciences, life sciences or complex sciences.