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"I my own professor": Ashton-Warner as New Zealand educational theorist, 1940-60.
No full textThe invitation to contribute to this volume addressed me as a New Zealander who had written about how Sylvia Ashton-Warner's fantasies, theories, imagery, and life-history narratives threaded their way through my own. I had written of my youthful encounters with her work in Educating Feminists (Middleton 1993), in which I looked back on reading Spinster in 1960 at age thirteen and reflected on my teenage dreams of life as an artist and beatnik in Parisian cafes and garrets: confined to an Edwardian boarding school hostel in a provincial New Zealand town, I had plotted my escape to what Ashton-Warner described in Myself as "some bohemian studio on the Left Bank in Paris or over a bowl of wine in Italy, me all sophisticated and that, with dozens of lovers, paint everywhere and love and communion and sympathy and all that" (Myself, 212). When, in the early 1970s, I began secondary school teaching and read Teacher, that book built bridges between the frightening urgency of classroom survival, the enticing theories but alien classrooms described by American deschoolers and free-schoolers, and "what I believed myself to be when a girl on the long long road to school, a vagabond and an artist" (I Passed This Way, 307). As a young teacher I, too, had poured my impassioned soul into writing journals and poetry, painting, and playing the piano. Like Ashton-Warner, I had hoped that artistic self-expression could keep the mad woman in my attic at bay, for "asylums are full of artists who failed to say the things they must and famous tombs are full of those who did" (Incense to Idols, 169)
Letter from Charles F. Warner to T. B. Larimore
No full textLetter from Charles F. Warner to T. B. Larimore. The one-page typewritten note is on Charles F. Warner, Landscape Architect letterhead and is dated 16 November 1912
Sylvia’s place: Ashton-Warner as New Zealand educational theorist.
No full textSylvia Ashton-Warner’s New Zealand educational context has been – and continues to be – misrepresented as antithetical to her creative methods. Sue Middleton, a professor of education, locates Sylvia’s educational ideas within the national and international Progressive Education movement, indicating that key education officials in post-war New Zealand encouraged creativity and self-expression.
This chapter makes the case that, as a teacher, an educational writer and theorist, Sylvia Ashton-Warner grew in, and not in spite of New Zealand. My argument unfolds in two parts. The first reviews theoretical ideas in the local and international educational environment in which Sylvia lived and worked. Sylvia and Keith Henderson taught in what was referred to until 1946 as the Native School system (and from 1948 until its abolition in 1968 as the Maori Scholl system). They trained and began work as teachers during the Great Depression; and Sylvia began serious writing during World War Two. The war and the Native Scholl system interested in complex ways with the wider international Progressive Education movement and its promotion ‘from the top’ in New Zealand’s public schools. An overview of Progressive (or New ) Education, the changing theories of culture and race in the Native School system, and relations between these during World War Two, opens a wide-angled aperture through which to read Sylvia’s early writing
One hundred years of Sylvia Ashton-Warner: An introduction.
No full textA biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner is presented. She was born on 17 December 1908 in New Zealand. She studied at the Auckland Teachers' Training College and taught in several native schools including Horoera Native School and Pipiriki Native School. Later she started writing, starting with "Teacher," a book about teaching schemes and followed by "Incense to Idols," "Bell Call," and "Greenstone." Also, her travels to various places are mentioned
Introduction: Sylvia, a New Zealander
No full textSylvia Ashton-Warner had an intensely ambivalent relationship with the land of her birth. Despite receiving many accolades in New Zealand – including the country’s major literary award – she claimed to have been rejected and persecuted, and regularly announced that her educational and literary achievements were unappreciated or insufficiently acknowledged by her compatriots. In her darkest moments, she railed against New Zealand and New Zealander, even stating in one television interview: “I’m not a New Zealander!
William Minor vs. John Minor and Ransone White, administrator of James Miller
No full textSuit in Gloucester County. From Mss. 39.1 J75, folder 330, box 6, Warner T. Jones Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Johnathan T. Hibble, Tappahonic to Colonel Warner T. Jones, January 22, 1861
No full textJohnathan T. Hibble, Tappahonic to Colonel Warner T. Jones, January 22, 1861. Autograph letter signed. Upon General Taliaferro's orders, collected guns in the county. Guns of Colonel Hayes and Colonel Taylor. Completion of arsenal. Asks for job on Taliaferro's staff
Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, probably between 1890 and 1898
No full textCaption on image: 301. Snoqualmie Falls. Height 286
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PH Coll 273.428In 1897 businessman William T. Baker formed the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company and bought Snoqualmie Falls and the surrounding land with the intent of building a power plant. Construction of the plant began in 1898. The first operational generator was online and began to transmit power to Seattle on July 31, 1899. A large rock in the center of the brink, known as Seattle Rock, was dynamited in 1900, after causing too many logjams near the top
Snoqualmie Falls showing the low head dam at the crest of the falls along with power plant facilities, Washington, probably between 1900 and 1909
No full textOn verso of image: Snoq. Falls
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PH Coll 273.423In 1897 businessman William T. Baker formed the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company and bought Snoqualmie Falls and the surrounding land with the intent of building a power plant. Construction of the plant began in 1898. The first operational generator was online and began to transmit power to Seattle on July 31, 1899. In 1903 the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company was bought by the Seattle Electric Company which was later acquired by the Seattle-Tacoma Power Company, a forerunner to Puget Sound Energy, In 1910 a second hydroelectric powerhouse was built
Snoqualmie Falls showing hydroelectric power plant facilities above the falls, Washington, probably between 1900 and 1909
No full textCaption on image: 256, A.C.W.
On verso of image: Snoq. Falls
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PH Coll 273.422In 1897 businessman William T. Baker formed the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company and bought Snoqualmie Falls and the surrounding land with the intent of building a power plant. Construction of the plant began in 1898. The first operational generator was online and began to transmit power to Seattle on July 31, 1899. In 1903 the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company was bought by the Seattle Electric Company which was later acquired by the Seattle-Tacoma Power Company, a forerunner to Puget Sound Energy, In 1910 a second hydroelectric powerhouse was built
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