Name: Evelyn Imelda Coxon[MM(C1]
Short Biography & Significant Contribution
Eve Coxon is Associate Professor in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Coxon has made a significant contribution to research on education in Oceania and beyond. In her role as founding Director and current co-Director of the Research Unit in Pacific and International Education (RUPIE) she leads a team of academic members in carrying out research that extends knowledge about Pacific Education and in facilitating the coordination, publication and dissemination of research into Education in the Pacific region. Her previous academic positions with the Centres for Pacific Studies and Development Students at the University of Auckland, and her ongoing engagement with them, continue to motivate her interdisciplinary teaching and research programmes. Her work within the broad field of Comparative and International Education focuses on education and development in the Pacific, and education in ‘fragile’ and ‘vulnerable’ states.
Professor Coxon started her career as a schoolteacher during which she began her postgraduate studies, which led to her move into the tertiary education sector. In her more than 25-year career at the University of Auckland, Professor Coxon has been involved in a wide range of research and research-based teaching, consultancy and advisory activities relating to education in the regional Pacific. She is also frequently engaged as a researcher and consultant by international development organisations and developing country governments.
Professor Coxon’s current and recent assignments include work in Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Bangladesh, Timor Leste and Afghanistan. She has contributed significantly to the field through her works that examine how educational aid can enhance sustainable and equitable education development. She is currently President of the Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES) and took a lead role in encouraging the renaming of the regional society formerly known as ANZCIES (Australia and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society) to one more representative of the region within which the society exists and more inclusive of educationists from the many countries within Oceania.
Educational Background
Ph.D Education, University of Auckland (1996)
MA Anthropology, University of Auckland (1988)
BA Anthropology and Education, University of Auckland (1981)
Diploma in Teaching, Massey University (1978)
Professional Background
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland
(2009-2010)
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland (2006-2008)
Senior Lecturer/Acting Director, Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland (2006-2007)
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Auckland (1999-2005)
Lecturer, School of Education, University of Auckland (1991–1998)
Teaching Fellow, Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland
(1989–1990)
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland (1988)
President, Oceania Comparative & International Education Society, President (2015 -); Australia/New Zealand Comparative & International Education Society, Member
(1996-2014)
Senior Research Associate, University of the South Pacific, Institute of Education (2012 - )
Research Fellow, ‘Atenisi University, Tonga (2010 - )
Director, Research Unit in Pacific and International Education
(2000- 2006; 2009 - )
Australia/New Zealand Comparative & International Education Society
(1996-2014)
New Zealand Association for Research in Education (1990 – 2012)
New Zealand Association of Social Anthropology (1988-95)
Tonga History Association (1988-96)
Polynesian Society (1987- 2009)
Selected Publications
http://iejcomparative.org
Tolley, H & Coxon, E., 2015. ‘Aid to Pacific Education’. In Crossley, M.,Hancock, G & Sprague, T. (eds). Education in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. London: Bloomsbury Academic.[MM(C3]
Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. & Coxon, E. (eds), 2014. Talanoa: Building a Pasifika Research Culture. Auckland: Dunmore Publishing Ltd.
Coxon, E. I. (2011). Editorial: Inside and Around the Pacific Circle: Educational Places, Spaces and Relationships. Pacific Asian Education, 23 (2), 1-7.
Coxon,E., 2010. ‘Achieving Education for All in the Pacific?’ In Thrupp, M. & Irwin, R. (eds). Another decade of New Zealand education policy: Where to now? Hamilton: WMIR, pp 185-200.
Coxon E. & K. Munce, 2009. ‘The Global Educational Agenda and the Delivery of Aid to Pacific Education’. In Mayo, Peter (ed.) Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas. London & New York: Routledge, pp 26-44.
Coxon, E., 2009. ‘Educational Enactments and the ‘New Aid Era’: Implications for the Pacific’. In Quinlivan, Kathleen, Boyask, Ruth & Kaur, Baljit, (eds) Educational Enactments in a Globalised World: Intercultural Conversations. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp 129-136.
Coxon, Eve and Munce, Karen 2008. ‘The Global Educational Agenda and the Delivery of Aid to Pacific Education’. Comparative Education, Vol. 44, No.2:147-166.
Coxon, Eve, 2007. ‘Samoa’. In Campbell, C. and G Sherrington (eds.) Going to School in Oceania, New York: Greenwood Press, pp 263-314.
Coxon, Eve, 2006. ‘Schooling, Ethnicity and Social Inclusion in Fiji’. World Studies in Education, Vol.6, No.2:55-73.
Coxon, Eve , 2007. ‘Polynesia’. In G. McCulloch & D. Crook (eds), The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education, London & New York: Routledge, pp 445-446.
Coxon, Eve, 2005. ‘Dogma, Ideology, Philosophy and Critical Education’. In: Campbell, Ian and Eve Coxon, 2005. Polynesian Paradox: Essays in Honour of Futa Helu. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, pp 58-72
Coxon, Eve and Hilary Tolley, 2004. ‘Aid to Pacific Education: An Overview’. In: Sanga, Kabini and ‘Ana Taufe’ulungaki (eds), Re-thinking Aid Relationships in Pacific Education. Wellington: He Parekareke, Victoria University, pp 28-82.
Coxon, E., 2002. ‘From Patronage to Profiteering? New Zealand’s educational relationship with the small states of Oceania’. Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 34, No.1:57-75.
Coxon Eve, 1999. ‘The Politics of 'Modernisation': Educational Policy-Making at the Periphery’. In: Marshall J. and Peters M., Education Policy. International Series in Comparative Policy Studies. Oxford: Edward Algar.
Contributed by: Jia Ying Neoh, University of Sydney
Date Contributed: August 16, 2016
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