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Sylvia!
Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, one of the great educational innovators of the twentieth century. Through the use of 'key vocabulary' her pupils learned that language could not only reflect their own creative energies but be a mirror to life itself.
Teacher
Teacher is part diary, part inspired description of Ashton-Warner's teaching method in action. Her fiercely loved children come alive individually, as do the unique setting and the character of this extraordinary woman. Ashton-Warner devised a method whereby written words became prized possessions for her students. Today, her findings are strikingly relevant to the teaching of socially disadvantaged and non-English-speaking students.
Spinster
Anna is a spinster, a genius and teacher of Maori children in a remote part of Hawkes Bay. A passionate woman, uncertain and gauche in her relations with men, she is at peace only in her schoolroom, her garden and the little back room where she struggles to create the works which will set her beloved children free.
Greenstone
The story of Greenstone is loosely based on the authors' own birth family, taking the romantic and legendary - and therefore more palatable - parts and making them into a novel. To the large family, the crippled father with a long heritage, and the mother at war with her employers, Ashton-Warner adds a Māori princess and all the myth and legend she brings with her.
Organic Literacy
Organic vocabulary is a term that describes a child’s inner source of thoughts. Based on the early work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner in New Zealand with Maori children, organic vocabulary can help promote early literacy among children who have little connection and prior experiences with print. This book connects the early research and methodology to today’s classrooms. These connections are applied to Title 1 schools (indicating low socioeconomic status), second language learners, and children with multiple levels of ability and adverse risk factors.
The Kiss and the Ghost
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 he...
Who is Sylvia?
"For four years Lynley Hood was obsessed, or possibly possessed, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. This ... diary is a record of Hood's experiences and reflections as she pieced together the multi-dimensional puzzle of Sylvia Ashton-Warner's life for her award winning biography, Sylvia! Hood reveals the fascination and complexities of the biographer's search; the highs of extraordinary discoveries, the lows of confusion and doubt, the frustrations and intrigue of the New Zealand literary scene and the author's own development as a solitary full-time writer "--Back cover.
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Caring Spaces, Learning Places
"Children deserve to spend their days in well-designed environments that support their needs and stimulate their learning. Adults who spend their days teaching and caring for young children deserve environments that maximize their skills. Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry. Here you will find best of current thinking about children's environments - 360 pages to challenge you, stimulate you, inspire you." - product description.
Spearpoint; Teacher in America
"... Recently she was invited to bring her organic teaching -- Release the native imagery of our child and use it for working material -- to an American experimental school on top of the Rockies "to implant a new kind of learning in this new kind of school". And now with the fresh -- indeed startling -- vision of a visitor to a strange planet, she pours out her impressions, feelings, intuitions about the American children she worked with, their teachers, their schooling, their world ..." -- Inside front cover.
