Marjorie Jones
Professional Title: Professor of Education / Writing
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Cultural Studies, Writing, History and Practice in Education, with specific emphasis on schools as learning communities and high school education; Women’s Studies; Curriculum Development: ‘Exploring Childhood’,‘Foster Parenting: Childhood and Adolescence’, medical education curriculum(in Guyana); ‘Exploring International Humanitarian Law’.
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
CWRIT 2250 Writing Workshop; ASOSC Schooling in the United States; AINTD Cultural Diversity: The African American Experience; CSOCL 2119 Race and Ethnic Relations;AINTD 5022 The Peoples of Washington State; CEDUC 1352 Teaching Learning and Social Responsibility; CEDUC 2353 Middle and High School Education; CEDUC 4350 Meeting the Individual Needs of Diverse Populations
Education: BA, Boston State College; EdM, EdD, Harvard University
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- Transforming Classroom Culture (2011). Arlene Dallalfar, Kingston-Mann, Esther and Siber, Tim (editors) New York, Palgrave Macmillan. Chp. 12 ‘Building Agency Through Writing’-Marjorie Jones.
- Jones, Marjorie, ‘Framing Cultural Diversity Courses Post U.S. 2008 Presidential Election’. Human Architecture Journal of the Sociology of Self Knowledge, Vol. VIII, Issue I, Spring 2010
Fun Facts: I have two sons (among four children) born on the same date seven years apart.
One other significant ‘learning context’ in which I teach is a course called “Understanding the Call” to seminarians and non-seminarians preparing to enter the ordained ministry.