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CALVO LOPEZ, Mónica A.. The development of a pregrade thesis as a space for the training and construction of knowledge. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2009, vol.31, n.124, pp.22-41. ISSN 0185-2698.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the processes of knowledge and transformation undergone by the student while working on his/her pre-graduate thesis. By "construction of knowledge" we mean the mobility of subjects, concepts and problems carried out by the students. For the qualitative analysis of the cases the author built up a new tool that allows to intertwine life stories, institutional careers and the way this work produced knowledge. This analysis shows that the construction of knowledge takes place within the intersection of the students' careers and that, because of the specific weight of some of them during the process of preparing the pregraduate thesis, the life story is very important while choosing the subject and reappears during the research process. The continuity of the thesis subjects takes place and is made possible within the institutional career by means of the control of concepts and when the institution sets up the necessary conditions and spaces to project into others the autobiographical subjects.

Palabras llave : Students; Construction of knowledge; Configuration; Thesis; Conceptual trajectories; Higher education.

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