Margaret Carr

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

Margaret Carr
Born	1941
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)

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

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.

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." 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.