Recognition for teacher
PA Auckland Sylvia Ashton-Warner, the controversial educational pioneer, will be given some official recognition by the teaching profession. The Auckland College of Education will name its library after the teacher and writer who died in 1984. College staff are planning a week of special seminars about the woman and her work in August to mark the occasion. Sylvia Ashton-Warner is a former student of the college. She was recognised internationally for her revolutionary techniques for teaching young children to read. However, her techniques were largely rejected by New Zealand authorities.
The head of the secondary English department at the college, Mr Stuart Middleton, said her work was now increasingly being given recognition.
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Press, 13 May 1987, Page 16
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