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Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBE (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, pianist and world figure in the teaching of children. As an educator she developed and applied concepts of organic, child-based learning to the teaching of reading and writing, and vocabulary techniques, still used today.
In Spinster, her vivid novel pub lished in 1959, Sylvia Ashton-Warner told of a loving, slightly balmy school teacher who taught Maori children in back-country New Zealand. Herself a teacher...
Sylvia Ashton Warren was a New Zealand writer, poet, and educator. Focusing specifically on her significant contribution to the educational system and her pedagogy approach that helped...
About Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Ashton-Warner was born on 17 December 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. She spent many years teaching Māori children, using st...
Sylvia Ashton -Warner: Reclaiming Personal Meaning in Literacy Teaching. NANCY S. THOMPSON. or many of you, Sylvia Ashton-Warner needs no introduction. You might have read. LI. Teacher, her book on teaching the concept of literacy to Maori children in New Zealand.
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance. 1908–1984. Educationalist, teacher, writer. This biography, written by Sue Middleton, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2010.
Feb 24, 2011 · New Zealander Sylvia Ashton‐Warner, a teacher in remote rural Māori schools in the 1940s–1950s, became internationally renowned as a novelist and educational theorist. Earlier commentators portrayed her educational theory as in conflict with those of her time and place, but recent studies conceptualise them as enabled by it.
