Florence O'Neill, a Newfoundland adult educator : alone in the wilderness
Florence O'Neill (1905-1990) played an important role as an adult educator in Newfoundland. Using her extraordinary ability to lead others and her unrelenting energy she dedicated her adult life to the field of adult education. O'Neill, in 1944, was the first person to earn a doctoral degr...
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ftunivbritcolcir:oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/10827 2023-05-15T17:15:28+02:00 Florence O'Neill, a Newfoundland adult educator : alone in the wilderness McManus, Katherine Anne 2000 11931133 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10827 eng eng For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. O’Neill Florence Newfoundland. Dept. of Adult Education -- Biography Adult education -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History Adult education teachers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography Text Thesis/Dissertation 2000 ftunivbritcolcir 2019-10-15T17:49:03Z Florence O'Neill (1905-1990) played an important role as an adult educator in Newfoundland. Using her extraordinary ability to lead others and her unrelenting energy she dedicated her adult life to the field of adult education. O'Neill, in 1944, was the first person to earn a doctoral degree in adult education in what is now Canada. Later, as an administrator in the Department of Adult Education in the Newfoundland government, O'Neill sought to implement her vision of an integrated system for providing adult education programs to the people of Newfoundland. She developed that vision through the writing of her doctoral thesis entitled: "A Plan for the Development of an Adult Education Program for Rural Newfoundland." O'Neill's personal struggle to become educated and later her struggles to see her "Plan" implemented adds to the body of knowledge about adult education in Newfoundland at an embryonic time in its development and to the knowledge of the field of adult education in general. Education, Faculty of Educational Studies (EDST), Department of Graduate Thesis Newfoundland University of British Columbia: cIRcle - UBC's Information Repository Canada Newfoundland |
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Florence O'Neill (1905-1990) played an important role as an adult educator in Newfoundland. Using her extraordinary ability to lead others and her unrelenting energy she dedicated her adult life to the field of adult education. O'Neill, in 1944, was the first person to earn a doctoral degree in adult education in what is now Canada. Later, as an administrator in the Department of Adult Education in the Newfoundland government, O'Neill sought to implement her vision of an integrated system for providing adult education programs to the people of Newfoundland. She developed that vision through the writing of her doctoral thesis entitled: "A Plan for the Development of an Adult Education Program for Rural Newfoundland." O'Neill's personal struggle to become educated and later her struggles to see her "Plan" implemented adds to the body of knowledge about adult education in Newfoundland at an embryonic time in its development and to the knowledge of the field of adult education in general. Education, Faculty of Educational Studies (EDST), Department of Graduate |
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