July 10, 2013
Inspiring teacher wins excellence award
A Pākeha member of Auckland University’s Te Puna Wānanga, School of Māori Education has won a national Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor Alison Jones joined the wānanga in 2004, and has been noted for her outstanding success supervising postgraduate students, especially Māori and Pacific Island students.
She says she tries to form a supportive and inspiring relationship that will get the best work from the student.
She also emphasises the importance of collective learning to the development of researchers; and the idea that researchers are writers, and that academic writing should be engaging and interesting.
Professor Jones is in demand in New Zealand and elsewhere for her academic writing workshops.
She also collaborated with Te Whare Wānanga ō Awanuiarangi Professor Kuni Jenkins on an award winning book about the earliest Māori writing.
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