Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand

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. 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. She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones

Education and career

Jones studied at

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for her Doctor of Education, entitled "'At School I've Got a Chance...': social reproduction in a New Zealand secondary school". In 2005, she was promoted to Professor in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. In 2014, she won the Dame Joan Metge medal. She was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017. In the

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, Jones was appointed a

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, for services to education and sociology research.

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. Her 2020 memoir, ''This Pākehā Life,'' was shortlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Award (General Nonfiction).

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