Reconciliation of different trajectories on the identity of master's students in environmental education

Abstract

Identity is conformed by different trajectories requiring a reconciliation. Reconciliation is to achieve that the trajectories coexist (Wenger, 1998/2001). Our objective in this investigation is to classify the ways in which students reconcile their trajectory in the master’s program of environmental education with their other personal trajectories. We interviewed five students of the second year of the master’s program of environmental education from a University in Mexico City. Through content analysis, we classify the trajectories in six contexts, which are educational, family, citizen, individual, leisure and research. We also classify relationships between trajectories in three forms of reconciliation (continuity, separation and exclusion) and one of conflict (discordance). We concluded that, the trajectory in the master’s program transcend the field of environmental education to reconfigure the person´s identity as a whole over time and social space.