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Sylvia: The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner Hood, Lynley Ashton-Warner was one of the great educational innovators of the twentieth century. Working predominantly with small New Zealand country schools at the furthest edge of the ‘civilised’ world, she established classroom techniques that unlocked a storehouse of imagery native to each child. 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It is the contradictions in Sylvia Ashton-Warner’s nature that puzzle and fascinate. How could such a self-absorbed woman develop a teaching method that so radiates understanding for children? For that matter, how could anyone who claimed she never wanted to be a teacher, that she hated teaching and was never any good at it, make any worthwhile contribution to education at all? — Lynley Hood. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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