Staci Martin

Staci Martin - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2022

Featured Session

Applying Critical Hope in Research and the Classroom

The purpose of conversation is to explore the impact of hope in the context of research and the classroom. Dr. Martin shows how mixed methods and the Speaking for Ourselves Action Research (SOAR) approach is applied. Her conceptual model applies concepts of hope, specifically critical hope (Freire, 1994; Duncan-Andrade, 2009; Hooks, 2003). This concept is a place where we can have meaningful dialogues that confront our own bias and complicities, and together find solutions that are just, hopeful, and local. By integrating art-based techniques, Dr. Martin shows how hope can play an integral role in research and the classroom itself. She will also share different voices from the field that have played a significant role in educating her own hope. It is her belief that when communities produce their own knowledge, they can drive public policies to support their own creative and meaningful solutions.

Time: Sunday (May 1) 1:00 p.m. KST (50 min., Synchronous)

  Biosketch

Staci B. Martin, EdD, is an assistant professor of practice at Portland State University. She studies critical hope and despair, co-researching, and peacebuilding. Dr. Martin is a community-based action researcher who is committed to co-creating practical solutions that are culturally responsive and led by, for, and in partnership with the community, especially refugee communities. She has designed and implemented psychosocial peacebuilding educational programs in four countries: South Africa, Nepal, Jamaica, and Kenya. Dr. Martin is the recipient of the 2018 CPED Dissertation in Practice of the Year Award. She is also a Rotary Peace Fellow (2020) and a Thailand–United States Educational Foundation Fulbright Scholar (2021–2022).

Select Sites
Portland State University: Staci B. Martin 
Dr. Staci B. Martin Receives Fulbright Scholarship 2021-2022
Staci Martin Contribution to The English Connection (Spring, 2022)
PDX Scholar: Martin Selected Works
Personal Website

  New Book
Global South Scholars in the Western Academy Harnessing: Unique Experiences, Knowledges, and Positionality in the Third Space

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