https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls en-us 2017-10-19 18:46:43 UTC 2025-11-23 18:33:15 UTC hello@padlet.com ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200021553 Educationalist
Teacher
Writer]]> 2017-10-24 14:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200021553 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200033909 Sue Middleton. 'Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance - Early life and marriage', published online in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6a1/ashton-warner-sylvia-constance (accessed 25 October 2017)

The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. “Sylvia Ashton-Warner.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 28 June 2013, www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Ashton-Warner.

]]> 2017-10-24 15:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200033909 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200034560 Was born in Stratford, Taranaki
6 of 10 children
Attended 10 primary schools
Often taught by her mother

]]> 2017-10-24 15:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200034560 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200035859 Sylvia's mother was a teacher
Began teaching at Wellington South School in 1926
Then decided to apply to teach the native school system 
1938 Sylvia and husband started working at Horoera Native School 
Became depressed and was introduced to psychoanalytic theory and encouraged her to start writing]]> 2017-10-24 15:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200035859 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200039336 in 1942 began developing a theory with the idea that literacy was best achieved when children expressed their experiences of fear and sex.

She believed that venting fear and the destructive drive through the key vocabulary and other expressive arts could prevent violence and war]]> 2017-10-24 15:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200039336 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200042269 Published her first book in 1958, Spinster, a fictional account of a teacher developing her teaching scheme

Her book was on New York Times best-seller list 

Book was adpated into a movie
Resigned from teaching to write full time]]> 2017-10-24 15:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200042269 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200044561 5 Novels
2 books of short stories
2 autobiographies
2 non-fictional accounts of her teaching theory]]> 2017-10-24 15:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200044561 ashlan209 https://padlet.com/ashlan209/t314dtdnwbls/wish/200045565

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