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<journal-id>0185-2698</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Perfiles educativos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Perfiles educativos]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-2698</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-26982017000100068</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Desarmando el rompecabezas en torno a la experiencia de elaboración de una tesis de maestría]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ramírez García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Rosalba Genoveva]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pérez Colunga]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Brenda Yokebed]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Soto Bernabé]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ana Karen]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mendoza Tovar]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mauricio]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Coiffier López]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fátima Yazmín]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Gleason Guevara]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Karla Jessica]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Flores Zuñiga]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jazmín Anaid]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Politécnico Nacional Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas (DIE)]]></institution>
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<country>Mexico</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Politécnico Nacional Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas (DIE)]]></institution>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Politécnico Nacional Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas (DIE)]]></institution>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Secretaría de Educación Dirección General de Bachillerato Centro de Estudios de Bachillerato]]></institution>
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<country>México</country>
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<aff id="Af5">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Virtual de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<aff id="Af6">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Coordinación General de Planeación ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<aff id="Af7">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana  ]]></institution>
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<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>39</volume>
<numero>155</numero>
<fpage>68</fpage>
<lpage>86</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-26982017000100068&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-26982017000100068&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-26982017000100068&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El presente texto constituye un ejercicio de sociología reflexiva por parte de un grupo de posgraduados sobre sus experiencias de elaboración de tesis de maestría. Se abordan diversos temas: motivaciones, desafíos, logros, tensiones, reconstrucciones identitarias y aprendizajes logrados durante ese recorrido. La reflexión y análisis sostenido por los posgraduados muestran que el proceso de elaboración de una tesis de maestría no es lineal; es un proceso dinámico no exento de altibajos que entrelaza las capacidades de los estudiantes para atender demandas cambiantes, de creciente complejidad, con aprendizajes producidos en las interacciones con los grupos de pares, profesores y directores de tesis, y en los marcos culturales y normativos provistos por las instituciones.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This text is an exercise in reflective sociology by a group of graduate students regarding their experiences of writing their Master's theses. A number of diverse topics are addressed: motivations, challenges, achievements, tensions, identitary reconstructions and lessons learned along this path. The reflection and analysis of the graduate students indicate that writing a Masters thesis is not a linear process, but rather a dynamic process not exempt from the ups and downs intertwined in the students capacities for responding to increasingly complex and changing demands through the learning generated in interactions with groups of peers, professors and thesis advisors, and in the cultural and normative frameworks provided by institutions.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Experiencias de posgraduados]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Maestría]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Elaboración de tesis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sociología reflexiva]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Escritura académica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Aprendiendo a investigar]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Experiences of graduate students]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Masters degree]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Writing theses]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Reflective sociology]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Academic writing]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Learning to research]]></kwd>
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