Sylvia Ashton-Warner, novelist and educationist, was extraordinarily famous in the 1960s. She maintained that young children best learn to read and write when they produce their own vocabulary, especially sex words – like ‘kiss’, and fear words – like ‘ghost’. This edited collection includes chapters by Mäori teachers and others who worked with Sylvia, as well as recollections of her son, Elliot Henderson. It reprints her Teaching Scheme that was originally published in New Zealand in the 1950s. And it celebrates her novels as brilliant and angry evocations of life in the wildness of New Zealand.
"Includes chapters by Māori teachers and others who worked with Sylvia, as well as recollections of her son, Elliot Henderson. It reprints her Teaching Scheme that was originally published in New Zealand in the 1950s"--Back cover.
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Contents
Introduction : Sylvia, a New Zealander / Alison Jones and Sue Middleton -- Creative teaching scheme / Sylvia Ashton-Warner -- Sylvia's place : Ashton-Warner as New Zealand educational theorist / Sue Middleton -- Far too original : Syvia Ashton-Warner's novels and her complicated relationship with New Zealand / Emily Dobson -- Were Sylvia Ashton-Warner's educational ideas really ignored in New Zealand? : The origins of Teacher / Geraldine McDonald -- Publishing Sylvia : C.K. Stead talks to Robert Gottlieb / Robert Gottlieb -- Teaching with Mere : Sylvia Ashton-Warner's 1973 Canadian university class / John Kirkland -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Māori children : "I do not think Sylvia learned much from the kids" / Merimeri Penfold -- Learning without teaching : Sylvia Ashton-Warner's classroom as a seed for kōhanga reo / Iritana Tawhiwhirangi -- Memories of my mother / Elliot Henderson -- Who is Sylvia? The story of a biography / Lynley Hood.