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Marie Clay

New Zealand academic, educator, researcher (1926-2007) · New Zealand · Academics · Died at 81

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Dame Marie Mildred Clay was a researcher from New Zealand known for her work in educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention, but her proposed solutions have proved controversial.

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A life in dates

2007Died13 April 20071997Herbison LectureAward1994Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiAward1993McKenzie AwardAward1986Dame Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward1926Born3 January 1926

Awards

Herbison Lecture1997
Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi1994
McKenzie Award1993
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire1986
Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society

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Dame Marie Mildred Clay was a researcher from New Zealand known for her work in educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention, but her proposed solutions have proved controversial. A clinical psychologist, she developed the Reading Recovery intervention, a whole language programme in New Zealand, and expanded it worldwide.

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Country
New Zealand
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1926 to 2007 · aged 81

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