Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner was born in Stratford, in Taranaki, on 17 December 1908, one of ten children in a family supported by her mother, a schoolteacher. Trained at Auckland teachers' college, married in 1931 to Keith Henderson, she taught for some twenty years with him in rural schools with Maori pupils, where she developed a pedagogy based on the child's own vocabulary. Invited to Aspen, in Colorado, in 1970, then to Simon Fraser University, in Canada, she was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 and died in Tauranga on 28 April 1984.

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