Scientific culture: A challenge for the initial formation of Mathematics and Physics professors

The formation of Mathematics and Physics professors has been one of the variants assumed by the Cuban educational pattern in its improvement. The integral character of its formation will be consequence from the solution to its professional problems. The development of the scientific culture in the students that are formed for that specialty is considered as one of the demands marked in its formation process. With this objective the Universities of Pedagogic Sciences have the mission of forming professors able to learn how to learn, to learn how to teach and to learn how to educate scientifically; able to transmit the cultural inheritance accumulated to the new generations. With this objective the initial formation of Mathematics and Physics professors has an overall importance, given the potentialities that the content of the different disciplines offers