Dr Carmen Dalli
Professor Carmen Dalli is an academic in Wellington, New Zealand. She is also an Honorary Consul of Malta in Wellington.
Professor Dalli's research interests include children's start in childcare, children's experiences of early childhood services, professionalism in early childhood education and early childhood policies. In the 1990s, she worked on the creation of New Zealand’s first Code of Ethics for early childhood teachers.
Professor Dalli is based in the School of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy at Victoria University, and is Director of the Institute for Early Childhood Studies. She is also an Associate Director of the Jessie Hetherington Centre for Educational Research. She has advised a variety of organizations, governmental departments and early childhood education groups throughout her career, including advice to the Minister of Education as a member of a Ministerial Advisory Group on Quality for Under-Two Year Olds in Early Childhood Centres.
Career
- Lecturer - University of Malta
- Associate Professor and Director - Institute for Early Childhood Studies – Victoria University of Wellington
- Honorary Consul of Malta in Wellington
Publications
- Dalli, C. (2002). In H. Fabian & A-W Dunlop (Ed) (2002) Transitions in the Early Years: Debating continuity and progression for children in early education. RoutledgeFalmer: London.
- Dalli, C. (2002). Constructing identities: Being a mother and being a teacher during the experience of starting childcare. European Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education. To appear in Vol 10(2) in 2002.
- Dalli, C. (2001) Handling the first transition: What early childhood educators can do, what they do and how they can do better. Early Education, Vol 25, pp. 13-20.
- Dalli, C. (2001). Different perspectives on starting childcare. Set: Early childhood folio, 2001. Wellington: NZCER.
- Dalli, C. (2000).Starting childcare: What young children laarn about relating to adults in the first weeks of starting child care. Early childhood research and practice. Vol2(2)
- Dalli, C. (2000). Beyond separation: Starting childcare before three. Children’s Issues, Vol 4 (1), 21 26, 45.
- Dalli, C. (2000). Transition to early childhood education: How teachers make a difference. Policy, Practice and Politics. Early Childhood Millenium Conference. 9-12 July. (pp89-97). Wellington: NZEI.
- Dalli, C. (1999). Learning to be in childcare: mothers stories of their child’s “settling-in”. European Early Childhood Research journal, Vol 7 (2), 53-66.
Community Involvement
Carmen was one of the founding members of the Maltese Association of Wellington in 1988. She held the position of President from 1988 to 1997. In 2000, Dr Carmen Dalli was one of the 5 appointed delegates of the Federation of Maltese Abroad (FOMA).
Carmen is married to Richard Niven and they have two sons.