Alison Jones

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Alison Jones

MNZM
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Jones in 2019
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
AwardsDame Joan Metge, 2014
Scientific career
Thesis

Barbara Alison Jones MNZM is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education.[1] She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Andrew Buchanan, New Zealand politician 1862–1874; great-great granddaughter of William Baldwin New Zealand politician 1863–1867; great granddaughter of Admiral William Oswald Story of the British Royal Navy.[2] She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones [3][4]

Education and career[]

Jones studied at Auckland for her Doctor of Education, entitled "'At School I've Got a Chance...': social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school".[5]

In 2005, she was promoted to Professor in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland.[6]

In 2014, she won the Dame Joan Metge medal.[7][8] She was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017.[9]

In the 2019 New Year Honours, Jones was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and sociology research.[10]

Publications[]

Her books include 'At school I've Got a Chance': Pacific Islands and Pākehā girls at school (1991), He Kōrero: Words Between Us: First Māori Pākehā conversations on paper (2011), and Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds (2017) which won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.[11] Her 2020 memoir, This Pākehā Life, was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award (General Nonfiction).[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Professor Alison Jones – The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  2. ^ "This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir". Bridget Williams Books. 2020.
  3. ^ "Finn McCahon-Jones: ceramics, festivals and giving kids a voice". Radio New Zealand. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Alison Jones: 'Pākehā shouldn't let our collective past be crippling'". University of Auckland. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  5. ^ ""At school I've got a chance...": social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school". Researchspace.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Professor Alison Jones". auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Metge an inspiration for educator Jones". Waateanews.com. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – Recipients". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Alison Jones". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  10. ^ "New Year honours list 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Tuai wins Ockham NZ Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction". Bridget Williams Books. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  12. ^ "Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 3 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.

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