Claire Jane McLachlan (sometimes McLachlan-Smith) is a New Zealand teaching academic. She is currently professor and dean at

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. Her speciality is early-childhood literacy.

Career

McLachlan did a M.A (Hons, 1st class) by thesis at Massey entitled '' 'Experience as a mother of a "crying baby": a single collaborative case study' '' completed in 1991, and then a PhD '' 'Emergent literacy in New Zealand kindergartens : an examination of policy and practices' '' in 1996. Between 2000 and 2006 she worked in

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at the

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and

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before returning to Massey University, where she rose to full professor in 2013. She then moved to

Waikato University , mottoeng = For The People , established = 1964; years ago , endowment = (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $263.6 million (31 December 2020) , chancellor = Sir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO, KStJ , vice_chancellor = Neil Quigley , city ...

as professor and head of school. She is currently professor and dean of the school of education at Federation University Australia.
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Selected works

* Makin, Laurie, Criss Jones-Diaz, and Claire McLachlan, eds. Literacies in childhood: Changing views, challenging practice.

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Australia, 2007. * McLachlan, Claire, Marilyn Fleer, and Susan Edwards. Early childhood curriculum: Planning, assessment, and implementation.

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, 2013. * McLachlan, Claire, Lucila Carvalho, Nicky de Lautour, and Koshila Kumar. "Literacy in early childhood settings in New Zealand: An examination of teachers' beliefs and practices." Australian Journal of Early Childhood 31, no. 2 (2006): 31–42. * McLachlan, Claire. "An analysis of New Zealand's changing history, policies and approaches to early childhood education." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 36, no. 3 (2011): 36.

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