Autoethnographic Reflections on a Research Journey

PART I: Research Journey v.1.0.- Chapter 1 Battlefield 1.0 Research as a Personal, Selfish Act.- Chapter 2 Battlefield 2.0 Research as Reflective Act The Bitter and the Sweet.- Chapter 3 Barriers Enablers Research as Rite of Passage.- PART II:  Research Journey 2.0 Ingress to Egress.- Chapter 4 Navigating Learning Spaces Maximizing Student Support Research as a Collaborative Act.- Chapter 5 Seesaws and Disenchantments.- Cycle of Pain.- Chapter 6 Self-regulation and Co-regulation Mentoring and Self-direction Research as an Empowering Act.- Epilogue When the Research Degree Changes You. 

Dr. J. Aleta R. Villanueva enjoys working with all kinds of minds in face-to-face, blended and fully online settings. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), engaged in online teaching, academic advising, and program supervision of the Social Studies Education postgraduate degree program. She is also the Deputy Director for Learning Design at UPOU's Center for Open and Digital Teaching and Learning, and the Program Development Associate of the Continuing Education Program, overseeing the development and implementation of non-formal short courses. Aleta has published qualitative research on dual language programs, curriculum integration and inquiry learning, virtual communities, open and progressive schooling, teaching presence, and the community of inquiry framework. Her ongoing projects include virtual learning community building, research on epistemic beliefs of educators, teacher-researcheridentity development, and research journeys. She is keen to collaborate on research projects which entail classroom-based research, design-based methodology and historical, auto- and ethnographic studies.
Dr. Douglas Eacersall is a Senior Lecturer (Researcher Development) and Learning Advisor (Higher Degree by Research) at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor, at the University of the Philippines Open University, Philippines. His research interests are in education, technology enhanced learning, research development and training, identity, and popular culture. He has worked on numerous research projects in the areas of Education, Martial Arts, History and Sociolinguistics, including a major ARC project examining language and cultural maintenance in the Australian Sudanese community. He has presented research from these projects at various Australian and International research conferences. Douglas is passionate about researcher training,