Knowledge-activities of graduates of the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural in non intercultural postgraduate degrees: tensions and synergies

Abstract

This article objective of is to describe and analyze the tensions experienced by graduates of the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural (UVI) who have studied non-intercultural postgraduate degrees, as well as the synergies that contribute to complement their undergraduate education. This happens when developing specific knowledge-activities constructed in a program with an intercultural approach that come into contact with academic knowledge. Semi-structured interviews were given to graduates of the UVI who have continued their postgraduate studies. A balance of the graduates is presented about their knowledge-activities, the tensions and the synergies that occur in their postgraduate studies when they come into contact with academic knowledge.