The study of the conditions and complexities of postgraduate programs is a strategy that contributes to the understanding, development, and continuity of educational offerings in higher education institutions. The postgraduate experience, through narrative, is a symbolic construction that is shaped by knowledge and politics. This performance weaves the fabric of academic good taste as a distinctive feature that legitimizes its graduates. This research is a qualitative-inductive case study that uses the categories of performance, habitus, and experience to outline, from the narrative of graduates of a regional Doctorate in Educational Development program, the symbolic space in education to understand its contribution. The confessional narrative technique is used to obtain discursive portions, processed in a matrix and analyzed with QDA Miner 1.4. The results allow constructing the argumen...