Jane Adams: an experience of multicultural education and social care. Chicago, 1889 - 1910

Silvana Panza
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Silvana Panza: Department of Human, Philosophy and Education SciencesUniversity of Salerno, Italy

European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies Articles, 2017, vol. 2

Abstract: The focus of this study concerns a deep analysis on the innovative educational method utilized by Jane Addams (1860-1935) at Hull House. She was a philosopher, but first of all we can consider this woman as a sociologist, because of her careful survey on society, Addams’s activities also implied a new educational project based on the social care of poor workers and their families. She chose for her extraordinary experience one of the most slummy suburbs in Chicago, where with her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded in 1889 this settlement. The main intention of the sociologist was to give immigrants lots of opportunities to understand Chicago’s social and political context. It was important to create a place where immigrant families could socialize, learning more about their rights and possibilities. For this reason Addams suggested that it needed to start from education, taking a particular care of children who lived in that area. It was necessary to promote a reform on the different culture learning to support immigrants in their integration, people who came there hoping to find a job into factories. In 1889 when the settlement was founded, there were about four hundred social houses around the States. Addams’ s important social and political idea was to develop a democratic society, where each person could recognize himself/herself as a part of it, avoiding marginalization and segregation. The sociologist was a central figure at Hull House for about twenty years.

Keywords: multicultural education; democracy; social care; immigrant children; integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.26417/ejms.v6i2.p306-311

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