Margaret Carr
Margaret Carr is a New Zealand education academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato.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.
She has research expertise in narrative assessment and early childhood education.
Along with Helen May, Carr was a primary author of Te Whāriki, the first national New Zealand early childhood curriculum.Selected works
- Carr, Margaret. Assessment in early childhood settings: Learning stories. Sage, 2001.
- Carr, Margaret, and Guy Claxton. "Tracking the development of learning dispositions." 9, no. 1 : 9-37.
- Claxton, Guy, and Margaret Carr. "A framework for teaching learning: the dynamics of disposition." Early years 24, no. 1 : 87-97.
- Carr, Margaret, and Wendy Lee. Learning stories: Constructing learner identities in early education. Sage, 2012.
