UID:
almahu_9949703374302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789087907860
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Content:
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'. Educators lauded her. Her autobiographical novels about teaching in remote schools, and being culturally abandoned in a remote country, New Zealand, attained enormous international popularity in both literary and educational circles. But she had an intensely ambivalent relationship with the land of her birth. Despite receiving many accolades in New Zealand, she claimed to have been rejected and persecuted by her homeland. In her darkest moments, she railed against New Zealand and New Zealanders, even stating in one television interview: "I'm not a New Zealander!" This is the first book to make Sylvia Ashton-Warner's passionately difficult relationship with New Zealand its central focus. Its contributors argue that, rather than stultifying her, the country she decried produced Sylvia and her work. In addition, infant schooling in New Zealand in the post-war years was relatively radical and progressive, and education officials seemed to welcome Sylvia's ideas about literacy. The edited collection includes chapters by Maori 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.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction: Sylvia, a New Zealander /
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Creative Teaching Scheme /
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Sylvia's Place: Ashton-Warner as New Zealand Educational Theorist /
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Far too Original: Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Novels, and her Complicated Relationship with New Zealand /
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Were Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Educational Ideas Really Ignored in New Zealand?: The Origins of Teacher /
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Publishing Sylvia: C.K. Stead Talks to Robert Gottlieb /
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Teaching with Mere: Sylvia Ashton-Warner's 1973 Canadian University Class /
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Maori Children: "I Do Not Think Sylvia Learned Much from the Kids" /
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Learning Without Teaching: Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Classroom as a Seed for Kohanga Reo /
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Memories of My Mother /
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Who is Sylvia? The Story of a Biography /
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Glossary of Maori terms /
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Author Biographies /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Kiss and the Ghost: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and New Zealand Leiden, Boston : Brill | Sense, 2009, ISBN 9789087907853
Language:
English
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