Resumo

CERVANTES HOLGUIN, Evangelina; GUTIERREZ SANDOVAL, Pavel Roel  e  RONQUILLO CHAVEZ, Cely Celene. Being a Postgraduate Student in Uncertain Contexts. The Experience of Educational Researchers in Training. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.25, e062.  Epub 12-Jun-2023. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v13i25.1363.

The objective of this work was to recover the meanings surrounding the experience of three generations of graduate students in educational research at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative micro-ethnographic research process was carried out in three stages: approach to the field, data collection and analysis. Three techniques were used to collect information: participant observation, researcher's diaries, and document analysis. This moment was developed between April 2020 and April 2021 with the intention of recovering the student experience from an endogenous, situated and plural perspective. For the participating students, COVID-19 meant a turning point in their conception of themselves (temporality); an opportunity to understand/understand themselves in the world (intelligibility); a vital event that affected their existence in different ways (experience), and a rupture mediated by emotions (emotional dimension). Despite the difficulties, the educational research training process allowed them to strengthen their knowledge, skills and frames of reference to investigate the educational reality in emergency situations. From the experience analyzed, graduate students are recognized as disruptive agents of their time, their history and the educational reality they investigate; the desire is to turn the experience into personal and collective learning to act in scenarios of calm and uncertainty.

Palavras-chave : student grants; adult students; educational research; pandemics; universities; student life.