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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/10827 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | McManus, Katherine Anne |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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