Alison Jones

Barbara Alison Jones MNZM is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education.[1]

For those of a similar name, see Alyson Jones and Allison Jones (disambiguation).

Alison Jones

MNZM
Jones in 2019
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
AwardsMNZM (2019)
Scientific career
Thesis

Education and career

Jones studied at Auckland for her PhD, entitled "At School I’ve Got a Chance...": social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school".[2] In 2014, she won the Dame Joan Metge medal.[3][4] 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.[5] 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 NZ Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction [6].

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gollark: > ...did I just make a regex that parses htmlNo. This is impossible.
gollark: I was testing experimental APIO-413 error handling.
gollark: --exec --bees ```pythonprint("--remind 1m test")```
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References
  1. "Professor Alison Jones – The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  2. ""At school I've got a chance...": social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school". Researchspace.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  3. "Metge an inspiration for educator Jones". Waateanews.com. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  4. "Royal Society Te Apārangi – Recipients". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  5. "New Year honours list 2019". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  6. "Tuai wins Ockham NZ Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction". Bridget Williams Books. Retrieved 10 July 2020.


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