In addition, infant schooling in New Zealand in the post-war years was relatively radical and progressive, and education officials seemed to welcome Sylvia’s ideas about literacy. Its contributors argue that, rather than stultifying her, the country she decried produced Sylvia and her work. This is the first book to make Sylvia Ashton-Warner’s passionately difficult relationship with New Zealand its central focus. 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. 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’. Sylvia Ashton-Warner, novelist and educationist, was extraordinarily famous in the 1960s.
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