1963
TEACHER
BY SYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER
Up for your consideration is a very nifty teaching text from the 60’s a time of change in many areas including education. Item details:
Measures about 6 x 9”
Cloth hard cover
224 pages
Photographs and text
Was in the collection of the University of Massachusetts Boston has library markings and University exlibris
Some chapters include:
Creative teaching
Organic reading is not new
The key vocabulary
Organic writing
Organic reading
Maori transitional readers
The golden section
Tone
The unlived life
Daisy rhythm
life in a Maori school
remembering
preface by Sir Herbert Read
‘Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBE (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand writer, poet and educator. Ashton-Warner was born on 17 December 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. She spent many years teaching Māori children, using stimulating and often pioneering techniques which she wrote about in her 1963 treatise Teacher (this book listed) and in the various volumes of her autobiography. Her success derived from a commitment to "releasing the native imagery and using it for working material" and her belief that communication must produce a mutual response in order to affect a lasting change. As a novelist, she produced several works mostly centered on strong female characters. Her novel Spinster (1958) was made into the 1961 film Two Loves (also known as The Spinster) starring Shirley MacLaine. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to education and literature in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honors. Ashton-Warner died on 28 April 1984, in Tauranga. Her life story was adapted for the 1985 biographical film Sylvia, based on her work and writings.’
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