Margaret Carr | |
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Born | 1941 (age 81–82) |
Alma mater | University of Waikato |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Early childhood education |
Institutions | University of Waikato |
Thesis |
Margaret Ann Carr ONZM FRSNZ (born 1941) is a New Zealand education academic. She is currently emeritus 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. [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]
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