This article outlines different stages of education in social sciences at the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, articulated with the national and international context. We adhere to the conception of Jaime Jaramillo Uribe on the history of education as cultural and political history, to analyze the double perspective of internal history, which accounts for the different relationships between the field of knowledge and disputes of a curricular nature; besides, external history, represented in the contexts of each era in the reforms emanating from the State that generated contradictions in the academic communities, which resulted in ideological conflicts within the university between political sectors, and in the recurring tensions between modernization and autonomy. It is about to analyze historically the relationships between the teacher education at the School of Social Sciences of the UTP and the curricular restructuring that were deciding in the search ...