By Emily Sok, Published March 28, 2024
Michigan State Bio: https://people.cal.msu.edu/jonesn30/
Twitter/X Account: https://twitter.com/natashaania
Natasha N. Jones is an associate professor at Michigan State University who specializes in technical communication and social justice pedagogies. She is co-author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action, and several technical communication articles.
In her keynote address at the Conference on Engaged Learning, Jones argues that on coalitional learning mut be understood as a central pillar in our work within communities. This helps us to rethink communities in dynamic ways toward the specific purposes that inform how we come together. In Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn, Jones continued, this is expanded to coalition building, which is a juncture between community and coalition that works toward change. Coalitions shift, engage difference, are dynamic, and serve a specific purpose. These are not as hierarchical as communities, and take on strategic collectivity – all of which are aspects that we strive to embed in our classrooms.
Jones has published design-centered research on course syllabi and accessibility, in addition to health rhetorics. Take a look at some of Natasha’s recent publications:
- Interview Transcript: Interview with Editor of Technical Communication Online
- Video: 2021 Keynote Address at Conference on Engaged Learning
- Article: Complicity/Complexity Problem of Anti-Racism Work in The Academy
- Website: Syllabus Language and Syllabus Design
- Article: Human-Centered Syllabus Design
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