Margaret Carr
New Zealand early childhood education academic
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Margaret Ann Carr ONZM FRSNZ (born 1941) is a New Zealand education academic. She is currently emerita professor at the University of Waikato.
Margaret Carr | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 84–85) |
| Alma mater | University of Waikato |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Early childhood education |
| Institutions | University of Waikato |
| Thesis | |
Academic career
After an undergraduate at the University of Waikato and Victoria University of Wellington, Carr completed a 1997 PhD titled Technological practice in early childhood as a dispositional milieu at Waikato.[1][2]
Carr has research expertise in narrative assessment and early childhood education.[3] Along with Helen May, she was a primary author of Te Whāriki, the first national New Zealand early childhood curriculum.[4], and learning stories.
In the 2002 New Year Honours, Carr was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to early childhood education.[5] She was appointed emerita professor at the University of Waikato in April 2018.[6] In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[7]
Selected works
- Carr, Margaret (2001). Assessment in early childhood settings: learning stories. Sage.
- Carr, Margaret; Claxton, Guy (2002). "Tracking the development of learning dispositions". Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice. 9 (1): 9–37.
- Claxton, Guy; Carr, Margaret (2004). "A framework for teaching learning: the dynamics of disposition". Early Years. 24 (1): 87–97.
- Carr, Margaret; Lee, Wendy (2012). Learning stories: constructing learner identities in early education. Sage.
- Margaret Carr; Sally Peters; Davis, Keryn; White, Jocelyn (2013). Key Competencies, Assessment and Learning Stories | New Zealand Council for Educational Research. New Zealand Council for Educational Research. ISBN 978-1-927151-89-1. Wikidata Q124607402.
