The self-partner training in the postgraduate degree: Experiences of the Academic Writing Collective

Abstract

The advances of this research contextualize the approaches to investigate the experiences of a group of students of the Master’s Degree in Basic Education taught by the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Unit 241 in the municipality of San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico, about the training processes that they perceive from the practices of academic writing during their self-partner training in postgraduate studies. The mediate antecedent of this condition is the notice of the multiple communicative needs of postgraduate students to express their ideas in an eloquent and sophisticated way through writing. This event is gestated from the perspective of the ubiquity of writing; the human right to build knowledge in a common world; develop events of social participation and political imprint in territories that become unstable, insecure, marginal, precarious for postgraduate students based on the conditions of social polarization produced by neoliberal capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and, in general, mitigating in the South (as a metaphor for unjust human suffering) and the public health emergency (COVID-19). The approach of the project is qualitative, it is based on its conception and analysis based on critical theory and the cooperative research method. For the retrieval of the information, a training self-partner strategy was implemented (September to December 2021) and, subsequently, a discussion group was held in March 2022. In this exercise, only the experiences in academic writing of the collaborators in the research are recovered.