https://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/ESPIRAL <p align="justify"><em>ESPIRAL</em> publishes research articles, interviews, reports, chronicles and literary texts in Spanish, Portuguese and English languages. <em>ESPIRAL</em> publishes contributions within the subject scope of the Social Sciences, as a major subject area, and Education Sciences, as a specific area...</p> Universidad Santo Tomás seccional Bucaramanga es-ES Espiral, Revista de Docencia e Investigación 2256-151X <p align="justify"><strong>Publishing and copyright</strong></p><p align="justify">The authors of the articles accepted to be published, transfer proprietary rights to <strong><em>Espiral</em>, Journal of Teaching and Research</strong> for the partial reproduction of the published work in electronic media (websites, indexes, directories), as long as their purposes are academic but not commercial.</p> https://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/ESPIRAL/article/view/3286 Diego Contreras Sánchez Copyright (c) 2025 Espiral, Revista de Docencia e Investigación http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2025-12-15 2025-12-15 15 1 10.15332/erdi.v15i1.3286 https://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/ESPIRAL/article/view/3341 <p>This article presents the results of the research study conducted in 2025 by the study group “Knowledge for Action” at Santo Tomás University, Bucaramanga. The group is made up of students from different undergraduate programs and faculty members from the Humanities Department. The investigation explored and highlighted the territorial, cultural, and identity diversity of more than 50 students through their life narratives; from a qualitative biographical approach, interviews were conducted and organized in five thematic axes: origins, migration trajectories, identity transformations, intercultural experiences at the university, and future goals. The analysis developed through thematic and axial coding allowed us to identify common patterns related to adaptation processes, intercultural tensions, narratives of territorial memory, and the redefinition of identity in the university context. The findings show that the institution functions as a dynamic space for cultural encounter and negotiation, where student experiences reveal both challenges and opportunities to strengthen intercultural coexistence.</p> Diego Contreras Sánchez Alfonso Rodríguez Balaguera Carlos Eduardo Oliveros López Copyright (c) 2025 Espiral, Revista de Docencia e Investigación http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2026-07-23 2026-07-23 15 1 10.15332/erdi.v15i1.3341