Date of Award
1966
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Howard, Homer
Abstract
In 1900 Commander Benjamin F. Tilley, then in administrative charge of the Samoan Islands for the United States Navy, found a greater degree of literacy among the Samoan people in their own language than among Americans in the United States in the English language. The missionaries had pioneered in furthering education in Samoa for the main purpose of training native pastors and they made great numbers of the people highly literate in their own tongue. However, the naval administration, from the beginning of their rule, adopted a policy of establishing a secular school system for the people. In addition to the work of the missionaries , the naval administrator, on July 6, 1901, requested that the Navy Department allot money for the purpose of establishing a school near the naval station. This was to mark the start of many appeals for federal assistance to establish a complete range of public schools in American Samoa.
Extent
87 p.
Recommended Citation
Steinbaugh, Byron Frew, "A Study of a Curriculum to be Conducted Mainly by Television for Secondary School Children Living in American Samoa" (1966). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1966 - 1969. 1.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_1/1
Identifier
FA00000645
Comments
College of Education|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1966.|College of Education