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Spinster, a novel

"This is a classic, multi-layered study in early education, individuality among teachers, and an insight into Spinsters. Understanding through art symbols, free expression for children dominate the teaching techniques. Based on the author's own teaching experience in New Zealand, this novel follows Anna Vorontosov, committed but unconventional infant teacher in a mainly Maori school. Anna's personal life is a mess: she moons over former love Eugene, needs a glass of brandy to make it in to work, and feels a constant failure from the inspectors' visits and the low marks they award her. As the book goes on, Anna finds a new interest in life, as she starts to develop 'Key Vocabulary' to get her Little Ones reading - words that pertain to things they love or fear, rather than the stilted and meaningless readers issued by the government. But will the inspectors recognise her genius?."--Amazon.com

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  • "Spinster"
  • "Story of a teacher of maori children"@en

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  • ""This is a classic, multi-layered study in early education, individuality among teachers, and an insight into Spinsters. Understanding through art symbols, free expression for children dominate the teaching techniques. Based on the author's own teaching experience in New Zealand, this novel follows Anna Vorontosov, committed but unconventional infant teacher in a mainly Maori school. Anna's personal life is a mess: she moons over former love Eugene, needs a glass of brandy to make it in to work, and feels a constant failure from the inspectors' visits and the low marks they award her. As the book goes on, Anna finds a new interest in life, as she starts to develop 'Key Vocabulary' to get her Little Ones reading - words that pertain to things they love or fear, rather than the stilted and meaningless readers issued by the government. But will the inspectors recognise her genius?."--Amazon.com"@en
  • "This novel, set in Hawkes Bay, is the story of Anna, spinster and genius, and teacher of Maori children in this remote area. A passionate woman, uncertain and gauche in her relations with men, she is at peace only in her schoolroom, her garden, and the little back room where she struggles to create the works which will set her beloved children free. This is a portrait of a pioneer and artist struggling against orthodoxy, of a woman coming to terms with her complicated self."
  • "Maori school teaching experiences set in the Bay of Plenty area."
  • "Portrait of an inspired but eccentric school teacher in a New Zealand school and her white, brown, and brown-white charges."@en

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  • "New Zealand fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "General fiction"
  • "Short stories, New Zealand"

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  • "Anna et les Maoris"
  • "Spinster, a novel"@en
  • "Spinster, a novel"
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  • "Spinster"
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  • "Spinster a novel"
  • "Anna et les Maoris (Spinster) : roman"
  • "Quelle meiner Einsamkeit"
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  • "Spinster : A novel"
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  • "Spinster : a novel"
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