Kiss and the Ghost
Subtitle: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and New Zealand
Publisher: NZCER Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781877398476
Description: Sylvia Ashton-Warner, novelist and educationist, was extraordinarily famous in the 1960s. 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’. This edited collection includes chapters by Mäori teachers and others who worked with Sylvia, as well as recollections of her son, Elliot Henderson. It reprints her Teaching Scheme that was originally published in New Zealand in the 1950s. And it celebrates her novels as brilliant and angry evocations of life in the wildness of New Zealand.