Per Stensland, educator, writer and speech-maker, was a native of Sweden. While in Sweden he studied Gunnar Myrdal and Dag Hammarskjold. Very little else is know about his early life at this time.
He eventually came to the United States, where he was on the faculty of several institutions including Kansas State, Texas Technological College, Teacher's College, University of Saskatchewan, New York University, Hunter College, and the University of Toronto. He was a fellow and coordinator of a five year seminar run by the Milbank Memorial Fund. He consulted for World Health Organization, World Bank, European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), Kellogg Foundation, and others. He also represented the International Council of Adult Educators (ICAE) on a number of projects.
His areas of expertise were medical education, particularly community medicine, community development, educational sociology, nursing education, and teaching strategies. He lectured, taught and wrote on all these subjects.
His papers are on file at: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
http://scrc.syr.edu
OBITUARY:
Per Gustaf Stensland, a resident of Connecticut since 1969, died on August 7, at East Hill Woods, in Southbury.
Mr Stensland was born in Liding, Sweden in 1913 and was a graduate of the University of Stockholm, having presented a thesis in economics, under the direction of Dag Hammarskjold.
He received his PhD in Education from Columbia University in 1950.
He had a long and distinguished career in the United States and abroad, in the fields of adult education, community development and public health education. He began as a professor of education and head of extension services at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas, leaving in 1952 to head the Extension Department at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Tex.
A victim there in 1957 of late MacCarthyism, for insisting on the importance of an unbiased presentation of social and economic theory, he joined the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and worked for two years in Sardinia as a community development specialist.
Returning to an early interest in the Northern European folkschool movement, he visited folkschools in Germany, Holland and Denmark on a consultative basis.
From 1960 to 1967, he and his wife, the former Carol Buswell Stensland, lived and worked in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was the first director of the Center of Community Studies, and later a professor of public health education.
He then returned to the United States to become Vice President of the Milbank Fund in New York City, focusing particularly on public health education in Central and Latin America.
At the end of his career, he traveled extensively, lecturing and publishing on professional education and public health issues.
An early passion for folk music, later led to his innovative use of folk song in the training setting and his development of a radio and television series in Texas, on the history of American folk music.
Consistently ahead of his time in the field of adult education, he directed training workshops and seminars, along and with his wife, for the Newfoundland Department of Education, Chautaugua Institute in New York and the Canadian Labour Congress, among others, and was one of the early pioneers in teaching group dynamics as a tool in training.
He leaves two sons, Ola Stensland of Los Angeles, Peter Stensland of
Stockholm, Sweden, and a daughter, Lucy Laederich of Paris, France.
Cremation will take place at the convenience of the family
He eventually came to the United States, where he was on the faculty of several institutions including Kansas State, Texas Technological College, Teacher's College, University of Saskatchewan, New York University, Hunter College, and the University of Toronto. He was a fellow and coordinator of a five year seminar run by the Milbank Memorial Fund. He consulted for World Health Organization, World Bank, European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), Kellogg Foundation, and others. He also represented the International Council of Adult Educators (ICAE) on a number of projects.
His areas of expertise were medical education, particularly community medicine, community development, educational sociology, nursing education, and teaching strategies. He lectured, taught and wrote on all these subjects.
His papers are on file at: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
http://scrc.syr.edu
OBITUARY:
Per Gustaf Stensland, a resident of Connecticut since 1969, died on August 7, at East Hill Woods, in Southbury.
Mr Stensland was born in Liding, Sweden in 1913 and was a graduate of the University of Stockholm, having presented a thesis in economics, under the direction of Dag Hammarskjold.
He received his PhD in Education from Columbia University in 1950.
He had a long and distinguished career in the United States and abroad, in the fields of adult education, community development and public health education. He began as a professor of education and head of extension services at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas, leaving in 1952 to head the Extension Department at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Tex.
A victim there in 1957 of late MacCarthyism, for insisting on the importance of an unbiased presentation of social and economic theory, he joined the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and worked for two years in Sardinia as a community development specialist.
Returning to an early interest in the Northern European folkschool movement, he visited folkschools in Germany, Holland and Denmark on a consultative basis.
From 1960 to 1967, he and his wife, the former Carol Buswell Stensland, lived and worked in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was the first director of the Center of Community Studies, and later a professor of public health education.
He then returned to the United States to become Vice President of the Milbank Fund in New York City, focusing particularly on public health education in Central and Latin America.
At the end of his career, he traveled extensively, lecturing and publishing on professional education and public health issues.
An early passion for folk music, later led to his innovative use of folk song in the training setting and his development of a radio and television series in Texas, on the history of American folk music.
Consistently ahead of his time in the field of adult education, he directed training workshops and seminars, along and with his wife, for the Newfoundland Department of Education, Chautaugua Institute in New York and the Canadian Labour Congress, among others, and was one of the early pioneers in teaching group dynamics as a tool in training.
He leaves two sons, Ola Stensland of Los Angeles, Peter Stensland of
Stockholm, Sweden, and a daughter, Lucy Laederich of Paris, France.
Cremation will take place at the convenience of the family
Per Stensland, educator, writer and speech-maker, was a native of Sweden. While in Sweden he studied Gunnar Myrdal and Dag Hammarskjold. Very little else is know about his early life at this time.
He eventually came to the United States, where he was on the faculty of several institutions including Kansas State, Texas Technological College, Teacher's College, University of Saskatchewan, New York University, Hunter College, and the University of Toronto. He was a fellow and coordinator of a five year seminar run by the Milbank Memorial Fund. He consulted for World Health Organization, World Bank, European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), Kellogg Foundation, and others. He also represented the International Council of Adult Educators (ICAE) on a number of projects.
His areas of expertise were medical education, particularly community medicine, community development, educational sociology, nursing education, and teaching strategies. He lectured, taught and wrote on all these subjects.
His papers are on file at: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
http://scrc.syr.edu
OBITUARY:
Per Gustaf Stensland, a resident of Connecticut since 1969, died on August 7, at East Hill Woods, in Southbury.
Mr Stensland was born in Liding, Sweden in 1913 and was a graduate of the University of Stockholm, having presented a thesis in economics, under the direction of Dag Hammarskjold.
He received his PhD in Education from Columbia University in 1950.
He had a long and distinguished career in the United States and abroad, in the fields of adult education, community development and public health education. He began as a professor of education and head of extension services at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas, leaving in 1952 to head the Extension Department at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Tex.
A victim there in 1957 of late MacCarthyism, for insisting on the importance of an unbiased presentation of social and economic theory, he joined the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and worked for two years in Sardinia as a community development specialist.
Returning to an early interest in the Northern European folkschool movement, he visited folkschools in Germany, Holland and Denmark on a consultative basis.
From 1960 to 1967, he and his wife, the former Carol Buswell Stensland, lived and worked in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was the first director of the Center of Community Studies, and later a professor of public health education.
He then returned to the United States to become Vice President of the Milbank Fund in New York City, focusing particularly on public health education in Central and Latin America.
At the end of his career, he traveled extensively, lecturing and publishing on professional education and public health issues.
An early passion for folk music, later led to his innovative use of folk song in the training setting and his development of a radio and television series in Texas, on the history of American folk music.
Consistently ahead of his time in the field of adult education, he directed training workshops and seminars, along and with his wife, for the Newfoundland Department of Education, Chautaugua Institute in New York and the Canadian Labour Congress, among others, and was one of the early pioneers in teaching group dynamics as a tool in training.
He leaves two sons, Ola Stensland of Los Angeles, Peter Stensland of
Stockholm, Sweden, and a daughter, Lucy Laederich of Paris, France.
Cremation will take place at the convenience of the family
He eventually came to the United States, where he was on the faculty of several institutions including Kansas State, Texas Technological College, Teacher's College, University of Saskatchewan, New York University, Hunter College, and the University of Toronto. He was a fellow and coordinator of a five year seminar run by the Milbank Memorial Fund. He consulted for World Health Organization, World Bank, European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), Kellogg Foundation, and others. He also represented the International Council of Adult Educators (ICAE) on a number of projects.
His areas of expertise were medical education, particularly community medicine, community development, educational sociology, nursing education, and teaching strategies. He lectured, taught and wrote on all these subjects.
His papers are on file at: Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
http://scrc.syr.edu
OBITUARY:
Per Gustaf Stensland, a resident of Connecticut since 1969, died on August 7, at East Hill Woods, in Southbury.
Mr Stensland was born in Liding, Sweden in 1913 and was a graduate of the University of Stockholm, having presented a thesis in economics, under the direction of Dag Hammarskjold.
He received his PhD in Education from Columbia University in 1950.
He had a long and distinguished career in the United States and abroad, in the fields of adult education, community development and public health education. He began as a professor of education and head of extension services at Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas, leaving in 1952 to head the Extension Department at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Tex.
A victim there in 1957 of late MacCarthyism, for insisting on the importance of an unbiased presentation of social and economic theory, he joined the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and worked for two years in Sardinia as a community development specialist.
Returning to an early interest in the Northern European folkschool movement, he visited folkschools in Germany, Holland and Denmark on a consultative basis.
From 1960 to 1967, he and his wife, the former Carol Buswell Stensland, lived and worked in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was the first director of the Center of Community Studies, and later a professor of public health education.
He then returned to the United States to become Vice President of the Milbank Fund in New York City, focusing particularly on public health education in Central and Latin America.
At the end of his career, he traveled extensively, lecturing and publishing on professional education and public health issues.
An early passion for folk music, later led to his innovative use of folk song in the training setting and his development of a radio and television series in Texas, on the history of American folk music.
Consistently ahead of his time in the field of adult education, he directed training workshops and seminars, along and with his wife, for the Newfoundland Department of Education, Chautaugua Institute in New York and the Canadian Labour Congress, among others, and was one of the early pioneers in teaching group dynamics as a tool in training.
He leaves two sons, Ola Stensland of Los Angeles, Peter Stensland of
Stockholm, Sweden, and a daughter, Lucy Laederich of Paris, France.
Cremation will take place at the convenience of the family
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