Eve Coxon
New Zealand Pacific studies academic
Evelyn Imelda Coxon is a New Zealand education academic, and an expert in Pacific education. In 2021, Coxon was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific and tertiary education.
Academic career
Coxon completed a master's degree titled A critical education: the ’Atenisi alternative at the University of Auckland and PhD titled The politics of 'Modernisation' in western Samoan education. Coxon then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, where she was the founding director of the university's Research Unit in Pacific Education. She led the development of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Pacific studies and education. Coxon was also involved in the development of Rethinking Pacific Education Initiative for Pacific Peoples, which celebrated twenty years of educational leadership development in 2022.
Coxon has been president of the Oceania Comparative Education Society, and served on the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. She has consulted on educational leadership throughout the Pacific, including advising the education ministries in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
Honours and awards
In 1991, Coxon was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship for a project titled Educational environments and the factors that contribute to educational success and/or failure among Pacific Island pupils in Auckland schools; Rarotonga and Western Samoa.
In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, Coxon was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific and tertiary education.
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