The author traces how conceptual, linguistic, sensory and intellectual resources of the global "New Education" movement extended into the tiny bush-encircled Maori communities in which Sylvia taught and wrote in the 1940s-1950s and surfaced in her writing. While space/place has often been considered the preserve of the geographer and time that of the historian, Henri Lefebvre and others suggest that: "these issues need to be thought together rather than separately" and that macro-, meso- and micro-levels of analysis be engaged simultaneously. Earlier commentators portrayed her educational theory as in conflict with those of her time and place, but recent studies conceptualise them as enabled by it. New Zealander Sylvia Ashton-Warner, a teacher in remote rural Maori schools in the 1940s-1950s, became internationally renowned as a novelist and educational theorist.
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