Leadership in ECE: A conversation with Professor Margaret Car

Abstract

I have had the privilege of working with Margaret Carr in a variety of capacities over the past 15 years. I first encountered Margaret when I was a kindergarten teacher and studying for my Masters degree. Margaret was my lecturer for a paper entitled Early Years Curriculum and Assessment. Soon after completing this paper, I was employed at the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato and was able to “learn the ropes” by joining Margaret in her Level 3 Developing Early Childhood Programmes paper. Subsequently Margaret has been the Chief Supervisor for both my Masters and PhD theses. I have also been fortunate enough to co-lead two TLRI projects with Margaret and been a researcher on a Marsden funded project led by Margaret.