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Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Sylvia Ashton-Warner. 1908-1984. Born in Stratford, Taranaki Warner became a student teacher in Willington in 1926. Attended Auckland Teachers' College in 1928. 1963 wrote her treatise Teacher Ashton-Warner died on April 28, 1984, in Tauranga .

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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  1. Sylvia Ashton-Warner 1908-1984 • Born in Stratford, Taranaki • Warner became a student teacher in Willington in 1926. • Attended Auckland Teachers' College in 1928. • 1963 wrote her treatise Teacher • Ashton-Warner died on April 28, 1984, in Tauranga. “The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.”

  2. Sylvia Ashton-WarnerContributions • Public work was centered on her teaching, and in particular, with experiments encouraging Maori children to read • Recognition that each person has a ‘key vocabulary’, a set of words with a special meaning relating to their emotional life, enabled her to develop a reading scheme for children who were otherwise failing at school • Teaching and approach to education are closely linked to her contribution to New Zealand literature. The ‘key vocabulary’ not only made the teaching of reading more effective, but also provided insights into the working of children’s minds and released their literary creativity.

  3. Sylvia Ashton-Warner • She wrote a treatise in 1963 called Teacher in which she wrote stimulating and pioneering techniques she used to teach Maori children • 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 Writings: Spinster, Incense to Idols (1960), Bell Call (1969), Three (1970), Greenstone (1966), Stories from the River (1986), Myself (1966), I Passed this Way (1979)(NC)

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