Margaret Carr

Margaret Carr (born 1941) is a New Zealand education academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato.^[1]

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]

She has research expertise in narrative assessment and early childhood education.^[2]

Along with Helen May, Carr was a primary author of Te Whāriki, the first national New Zealand early childhood curriculum.^[3]

Selected works

• Carr, Margaret. Assessment in early childhood settings: Learning stories. Sage, 2001.
• Carr, Margaret, and Guy Claxton. "Tracking the development of learning dispositions." Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 9, no. 1 (2002): 9-37.
• Claxton, Guy, and Margaret Carr. "A framework for teaching learning: the dynamics of disposition." Early years 24, no. 1 (2004): 87-97.
• Carr, Margaret, and Wendy Lee. Learning stories: Constructing learner identities in early education. Sage, 2012.

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