ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to the hero's journey as a 'powerful metaphor' to present narrative accounts of our doctoral research journeys and the development of our reflective language teacher educator identities. Also the hero's journey metaphor gives us a theme to facilitate the cohesive narration of the myriad student, teacher, researcher, personal, and professional identities that overlap throughout all stages of our doctoral experiences. Language teacher education (LTE) has recently embraced teacher identities as a form of pedagogy to capitalize on teachers' lived experiences. The chapter provides an overview of important theoretical constructs that have emerged in the literature and mediate the analysis of our multiple identities. It illustrates our two teacher-educators-in-the making journeys and how our multiple identities were negotiated across time and contexts while conducting our doctoral research. The use of the hero's journey proved to be a powerful metaphor for us to engage in critical collaboration and reflect on our experiences as language teachers and researchers.
