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 effect a lasting change. She spent many years teaching Māori children, using stimulating and often pioneering techniques which she wrote about in her 1963 treatise Teacher and in the various volumes of her autobiography.
Experts flocked to study her methods for.Īshton-Warner was born on 17 December 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. Sylvia was a gifted but complex teacher who worked with Māori children in New Zealand from the 1940s onwards.
The link above takes you to one of the few interviews with Sylvia Ashton-Warner.
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