1st Edition

On Education

By Jane Addams Copyright 1985
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Jane Addams, the founder of Hull House in Chicago, may be best known as a social activist. She was also a brilliantly critical intellectual. Implicit in her many speeches, articles, and books is a view of education as a broad process of cultural transformation and renewal, a view that remains as compelling today as when it was first presented. Addams sees education as the foundation of democracy,... Read more
1: The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements; 2: The College Woman and the Family Claim; 3: A Function of the Social Settlement; 4: Educational Methods; 5: The Humanizing Tendency of Industrial Education; 6: Child Labor Legislation — A Requisite for Industrial Efficiency; 7: The Public School and the Immigrant Child; 8: The House of Dreams; 9: Immigrants and Their Children; 10: Socialized Education; 11: Recreation as a Public Function in Urban Communities; 12: Moral Education and Legal Protection for Children; 13: Widening the Circle of Enlightenment: Hull House and Adult Education; 14: Education by the Current Event

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Jane Addams