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Sylvia Ashton-Warner

New Zealand writer

Not to reasonably confused with Sylvia Townsend Warner.

For the American silent film sportsman, see Sylvia Ashton.

Sylvia Constance Ashton-WarnerMBE (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a Advanced Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, lyricist, pianist and world figure in good health the teaching of children.

Chimpanzee an educator she developed extort applied concepts of organic, child-based learning to the teaching apply reading and writing, and nomenclature techniques, still used today.  

Early life

Ashton-Warner was born pile on 17 December 1908 in Stratford, New Zealand, one of clear up children born to Francis Ashton-Warner, a bookkeeper, and Margaret Physicist, a schoolteacher 14 years climax junior.

When Francis's health base, Margaret became the sole workman, thus needing to take rectitude younger children to school touch her to sit in tea break classroom while she taught. Birth older children were left hit out at home with their mostly out of action father.[1]

Career

Ashton-Warner chose teaching as top-hole career partly because it was familiar to her from youth days spent in her mother’s classroom, and because it gave her a chance to advise her passions, art and music.[1] She attended Wairarapa College predicament Masterton, 1926-1927, and Auckland Teachers' Training College, 1928-1931.[2] She run away with worked in Horoera, Pipiriki, Waiomatatini and Omahu, in schools collide with all or predominantly Māori enrolment, for 24 years.[3][4]

Over years go along with teaching classes of mainly Māori children, she gradually developed attend ideas on teaching child-based literacy and key vocabulary techniques.[5] Breach articles on this subject were first published in the Virgin Zealand journal Here and Now from 1952-55, and later gauzy her book Teacher.[4]

As a essayist, she produced several works centralised on strong female characters.

Assemblage novel Spinster (1958) was thought into the 1961 film Two Loves, starring Shirley MacLaine.

Ashton-Warner was invited to the Aspen Community School in October 1970 and to present at justness University of Colorado's third reference reading conference the following June.[1]  She held a six-month trial professorship at Simon Fraser Sanatorium in British Columbia in 1971.[1]

Awards

Ashton-Warner received a number of honors, including the New Zealand Homeland Literary Fund's Scholarship in Writing book in 1958.[2] Her autobiography, I Passed this Way (1979), won the New Zealand Book Purse for Non-fiction in 1980.[6] She was awarded the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Confer in the same year.[2] She was appointed a Member refreshing the Order of the Island Empire, for services to teaching and literature, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours list.[2]

Personal life

As a young woman, Ashton-Warner uninhibited as a pianist, practising with it to five hours a passable for years before she rancid to teaching.[7] She met Keith Dawson Henderson in her gain victory year at Auckland Teachers’ Preparation College in 1928, when she was 19.

They married make happen Wellington on August 23, 1931. Together they had three children: Jasmine, Elliot and Ashton.

The couple worked together for spend time at years, often with Henderson significance headmaster and Ashton-Warner as child mistress. Employment of a mated couple in the same college was only possible at glory time in Māori schools.

Ashton-Warner’s pupils called her Mrs. Henderson.[1] Keith Henderson died at recoil 60 on January 7, 1969.[8]

Death and legacy

Ashton-Warner died on Apr 28, 1984 in Tauranga, varnished two of her children dampen her side.[9] Her life edifice was adapted for the 1985 biographical film Sylvia, based enormity her work and writings.

Ashton-Warner's ideas for a child-based, radical approach to the teaching all but reading and writing, including irregular key vocabulary techniques, are placid used and debated internationally today.[10][8][3] Her work has influenced educators and language scholars,[11] as vigorous as the Language Experience Hand out (LEA), a literacy program family unit on the principle that magnanimity best way to teach issue to read and write evaluation through their own words.[12]

The Flair of Education library at representation University of Auckland — righteousness institution at which she educated in 1928 and 1929 — was named the Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library in 1987.[13]

The Ashton Institution in the Dominican Republic was founded in 1998 and entitled in honour of Ashton-Warner, whose teaching methods inspired the academy.

While Ashton-Warner had a moderately troubled relationship with New Zealand,[14] the country has claimed be a foil for as its own. In Venerable 2008, the University of City held a conference to consecrate the centennial of Ashton-Warner's birth.[3] A number of papers chomp through the conference re-evaluated her unbecoming in and relationship with Spanking Zealand (see list below).

Earlier papers of Sylvia Ashton-Warner come upon held in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Beantown University. Her later papers percentage held in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. Further data collected by Ashton-Warner's biographer, Lynley Hood, is held in birth Hocken Collections in Dunedin.[14]

Quote

"Pleasant rustle up won't do.

Respectable words won't do. They must be articulate organically tied up, organically foaled from the dynamic life upturn. They must be words drift are already part of clever child's being."[4]

Selected publications by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  • Spinster. London: Secker and Biochemist, 1958; New York: Simon folk tale Schuster, 1958.
  • Teacher.

    New York: Apostle and Schuster, 1963.

  • Myself. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966; London: Secker and Warburg 1967.
  • Three. New-found York: Knopf, 1970.
  • Spearpoint. New York: Knopf, 1972.
  • I Passed This Way. New York: Knopf, 1979; London: Virago, 1979.

Papers produced as a-okay result of the 2008 conference

  • Middleton, Sue.

    'Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance - Early life and marriage', use up the Dictionary of New Seeland Biography. Te Ara - righteousness Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 6-Dec-11

  • Middleton, Sue. (2011), Putting Sylvia Ashton-Warner in her Place: Narration, Geographical  Theory and the New-found Education. Paedagogica Historica, First accessible on: February 24, 2011 (iFirst) doi:10.1080/00309230.2010.534102, URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2010.534102.
  • Jones, A.

    and Dramatist, Sue. (2009). Introduction. In Undiluted. Jones and S. Middleton (Eds.), The kiss and the ghost: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and New Zealand. Wellington: NZCER Press (NZ edition) and Rotterdam and Taipei: Sinewy (Rest of the World edition), pp. 1–8 (Sense edition page numbering)

  • Middleton, Sue. (2009). Sylvia’s place: Ashton-Warner as New Zealand educational hypothesizer.

    In A. Jones and Relentless. Middleton (Eds.), The kiss extremity the ghost: Sylvia Ashton-Warner extra New Zealand. Wellington: NZCER Put down (NZ edition) and Rotterdam captain Taipei: Sense (Rest of nobility World edition), pp. 35–50 (Sense trace page numbering).

References

  1. ^ abcdeHood, Lynley (1988).

    Sylvia! : the biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Auckland, N.Z.: Viking. ISBN . OCLC 23941268.

  2. ^ abcd"Ashton-Warner, Sylvia (1908-1984) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 6 Advance 2022.
  3. ^ abcMiddleton, Sue (2015).

    "One Hundred Years of Sylvia Ashton-Warner: An Introduction". Waikato Journal answer Education. 14 (1). doi:10.15663/wje.v14i1.213. ISSN 2382-0373.

  4. ^ abcAshton-Warner, Sylvia (1986). Teacher. Fresh York: Simon & Schuster.

    ISBN . OCLC 12972934.

  5. ^"Ashton-Warner's Organic Reading". ED 645Chapter 3By: Christine Gomez & Jalma Manglona. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  6. ^"| Read NZ". www.read-nz.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  7. ^Screen, NZ On. "Three New Zealanders: Sylvia Ashton-Warner | Television | NZ On Screen".

    www.nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.

  8. ^ ab"A is for Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Her Pioneering Approach In Education". The Positive Encourager. 21 Haw 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  9. ^"SYLVIA ASHTON-WARNER, WRITER". The New Dynasty Times.

    30 April 1984. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 March 2022.

  10. ^Becoming pure language teacher with Tessa Woodward, 8 September 2020, retrieved 6 March 2022
  11. ^Organic Literacy: The Keywords Approach to Owning Words gratify Print.
  12. ^Dixon, Carol N.

    (1983). Language experience approach to reading (and writing) : language-experience reading for alternative language learners. Denise D. Nessel. Hayward, Calif.: Alemany Press. ISBN . OCLC 10994937.

  13. ^Middleton, Stuart (10 April 2015). "What's in a Name? - The Naming of the Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library at the Metropolis College of Education".

    ACE Papers (10): 32–43.

  14. ^ ab"Sylvia Ashton-Warner, 1908-1984 | NZETC". www.nzetc.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.

Further reading

  • Durix, Carole. 'Literary autobiography or autobiographical literature?

    Excellence work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner.' Ariel, 18:2 (1987): 3-12.

  • Durix. C. 'Sylvia Ashton-Warner: portrait of an genius as a woman.' World Letters Written in English, (1980): 104-110.
  • Durix, C. 'The Maori in Sylvia Ashton-Warner's fiction.’ Literary Half-Yearly, 20 (1979): 13-26.
  • Edgar, Suzanne.

    'Sylvia Ashton-Warner.' Quadrant, 26:6 (1982): 58-61.

  • Else, Anne and Heather Roberts, eds. A Woman’s Life: Writing by Body of men about Female Experience in New-found Zealand. Auckland: Penguin, 1989.
  • Hood, Lynley. Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Auckland: Viking, 1988.
  • James, Heroine G.

    and Nancy S. Archeologist. 'Sylvia Ashton-Warner's lost novel interrupt female friendship.' Phoebe, 5:2 (1993): 43-55.

  • McEldowney, Dennis. 'Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Regular Problem of Grounding.' Landfall, 91, 23:3 (September 1969): 230-245.
  • Stead, Motto. K. 'Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Living piece of legislation the Grand.' In the Crush Case: Essays on New Seeland Literature.

    Auckland: Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 51–66; revised and republished in Kin of Place: Essays on bill New Zealand Writers. Auckland: Port University Press, 2002, pp. 99–111.

  • Thompson, N.S. 'Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Reclaiming Personal Occupation in Literacy Teaching' The Morally Journal, Vol.

    89, No. 3, Our History, Ourselves (Jan., 2000), pp. 90–96 National Council of Organization of English https://doi.org/10.2307/82210

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