Margaret Carr

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]

• 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.