Margaret Carr

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

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

Margaret Carr ONZM FRSNZ
Born	1941 (age 82–83)
Alma mater	University of Waikato
Scientific career
Fields	Early childhood education
Institutions	University of Waikato
Thesis	Technological practice in early childhood as a dispositional milieu  (1997)

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.

Carr has research expertise in narrative assessment and early childhood education. Along with Helen May, she was a primary author of Te Whāriki, the first national New Zealand early childhood curriculum.

In the 2002 New Year Honours, Carr was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to early childhood education. She was appointed emerita professor at the University of Waikato in April 2018. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

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.
• Margaret Carr; Sally Peters; Davis, Keryn; White, Jocelyn (2013). Key Competencies, Assessment and Learning Stories | New Zealand Council for Educational Research. New Zealand Council for Educational Research. ISBN 978-1-927151-89-1. Wikidata Q124607402.