Memories of science education in Brazil: the physics education research

Recordings made in the last few decades, like as papers, congresses proceedings, research groups reports and interviews recently taken among researchers, allowed to rescue some details of the path drawn by the Physics Education research in Brazil. The interpretation of certain sense effects conferred by the interviewees and other in the recordings analyzed, allows us to perceive the plurality of this area of study, the diversity of factors considered important to its constitution and some characteristics of the research in this area.