Margaret Carr

Margaret Ann Carr ONZM FRSNZ (born 1941) is a New Zealand education academic. She is currently emeritus professor at the University of Waikato.

This article is about the education academic. She is not to be confused with Margaret Carr (novelist).

Margaret Carr

ONZM FRSNZ
Born1941 (age 81–82)
Alma materUniversity of Waikato
Scientific career
FieldsEarly childhood education
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

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 emeritus 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.

References
  1. "Margaret Carr – Staff Profiles". University of Waikato. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. Carr, Margaret (1997). Technological practice in early childhood as a dispositional milieu (Doctoral thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/12286.
  3. "Professor Margaret Carr". www.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  4. "The story of Te Whāriki » Te Whāriki Online". tewhariki.tki.org.nz.
  5. "New Year Honours List 2002". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  6. "Margaret Carr now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Waikato". Educational Leadership Project Blog. 8 April 2018. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  7. "Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.


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