Sylvia

"The memorable true story of a New Zealand woman who overcame many obstacles to become an internationally acclaimed teacher and a best selling writer. Slyvia tells the real story of the most crucial years of her life, when she was living in a remote Maori settlement in the North Island and developing a revolutionary method of teaching which was to bring her to world attention. Music, painting and writing became Sylvia's most cherished activitiesm, but teaching was the only work she could find. So she graduated as a teacher, married a teacher and spent more than 20 years working with infant groups."--Distributor's website.

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""The memorable true story of a New Zealand woman who overcame many obstacles to become an internationally acclaimed teacher and a best selling writer. Slyvia tells the real story of the most crucial years of her life, when she was living in a remote Maori settlement in the North Island and developing a revolutionary method of teaching which was to bring her to world attention. Music, painting and writing became Sylvia's most cherished activitiesm, but teaching was the only work she could find. So she graduated as a teacher, married a teacher and spent more than 20 years working with infant groups."--Distributor's website."@en
"A drama about the life of revolutionary educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Set in New Zealand and based on her books Teacher and I passed this way."@en
"A biographical film about the New Zealand author and educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner, her pioneering work teaching Māori children to read in the 1940s and her conflicts with the educational establishment over her non-conventional methods."
"Based on the true experiences of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who developed a radically successful new method of teaching Maori children in 1940's New Zealand."@en
"This is a dramatisation based on two autobiographical novels by Sylvia Ashton-Warner who developed a liberated approach to teaching young, illiterate, mainly Maori pupils. In doing so she comes up against the male educational bureaucracy and an educational system based on teaching methods which she rejects as 'cultural imperialism'. Nine years in the novels, spent in several New Zealand locations, are compressed into a few months in a small, country town in the early 1940s. This is both a classroom drama and an emotional story about a young woman and her relationships during a time when she is attempting to come to terms with an overwhelming sense of isolation in a society that largely rejects the artist."@en
"This is a dramatisation based on two autobiographical novels by Sylvia Ashton-Warner who developed a liberated approach to teaching young, illiterate, mainly Maori pupils. In doing so she comes up against the male educational bureaucracy and an educational system based on teaching methods which she rejects as 'cultural imperialism'. Nine years in the novels, spent in several New Zealand locations, are compressed into a few months in a small, country town in the early 1940s. This film is both a classroom drama and an emotional story about a young woman who is coming to terms with an overwhelming sense of isolation in a society that largely rejects the artist."@en