Margaret Carr

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Margaret Carr
Born1941 (age 8283)
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 emerita professor at the University of Waikato.

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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 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]

Selected works

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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.