Jo Mackiewicz appears on The Academic Minute and The Fabricator Podcast

Jo Mackiewicz, professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication, explores the question of how people develop both depth and breadth of expertise in a skilled trade workplace.

“My research focuses on the challenges of learning a skilled trade in a workplace,” Mackiewicz said. “Understanding these challenges and the ways people learn, we can facilitate trades learning and we can better appreciate those tradespeople whose depth and breadth of expertise keep our built environments running.”

You can hear her piece at The Academic Minute.

She will also appear on The Fabricator podcast.

From its site: “We’re back this week with another episode of The Fabricator Podcast. And this one is interesting…

Jo Mackiewicz of the Iowa State University Department of English joins us to talk about her remarkable path to becoming a welder after writing a book about the communication between welding teachers and students, working part time in a weld shop, and women entering the trade.”

You can catch that at The Fabricator.