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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, the basis for the free expression of ideas. Addams's
writings on education are interpreted in an enlightening
bio-graphical introduction by Ellen Lagemann. After the initial
publication of this work, Barbara L. Jacquette of the Delta Group,
Inc., in Phoenix wrote, "Professor Lagemann has brought life and
immediacy to Jane Addams's work. Better, she has given us a context
that shows us that some of our most pressing issues today are
simply old problems in new guises, problems for which some of the
old solutions may still be of use." Gerald Lee Gutek of Loyola
University of Chicago commented "Lagemann's insightful and
sensitive biography reveals Addams's transformation from a reserved
graduate of a small women's college into the Progressive reformer
and pioneer of the settlement house movement." The essays collected
here span a significant portion of Jane Addams's life, from the
time she spent in college to her founding of Hull House and beyond.
Addams's constant interest in education is reflected in her
writings. This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's
life, including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On
Education is an important work for educators, women's studies
specialists, social workers, and historians.
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, the basis for the free expression of ideas.
Addams's writings on education are interpreted in an
enlightening bio-graphical introduction by Ellen Lagemann. After
the initial publication of this work, Barbara L. Jacquette of the
Delta Group, Inc., in Phoenix wrote, "Professor Lagemann has
brought life and immediacy to Jane Addams's work. Better, she has
given us a context that shows us that some of our most pressing
issues today are simply old problems in new guises, problems for
which some of the old solutions may still be of use." Gerald Lee
Gutek of Loyola University of Chicago commented "Lagemann's
insightful and sensitive biography reveals Addams's transformation
from a reserved graduate of a small women's college into the
Progressive reformer and pioneer of the settlement house
movement."
The essays collected here span a significant portion of Jane
Addams's life, from the time she spent in college to her founding
of Hull House and beyond. Addams's constant interest in education
is reflected in her writings. This book also reveals the many
influences on Addams's life, including the philosopher and educator
John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators,
women's studies specialists, social workers, and historians.
Excerpt: ...and is emerging from the narrower code of family ethics
into the larger code governing social relations. It still remains
to express the ethical advance through changed economic conditions
by which the actual needs of the family may be supplied not only
more effectively but more in line with associated effort. To fail
to apprehend the tendency of one's age, and to fail to adapt the
conditions of an industry to it, is to leave that industry
ill-adjusted and belated on the economic side, and out of line
ethically. CHAPTER V INDUSTRIAL AMELIORATION There is no doubt that
the great difficulty we experience in reducing to action our
imperfect code of social ethics arises from the fact that we have
not yet learned to act together, and find it far from easy even to
fuse our principles and aims into a satisfactory statement. We have
all been at times entertained by the futile efforts of half a dozen
highly individualized people gathered together as a committee.
Their aimless attempts to find a common method of action have
recalled the wavering motion of a baby's arm before he has learned
to coordinate his muscles. If, as is many times stated, we are
passing from an age of individualism to one of association, there
is no doubt that for decisive and effective action the individual
still has the best of it. He will secure efficient results while
committees are still deliberating upon the best method of making a
beginning. And yet, if the need of the times demand associated
effort, it may easily be true that the action which appears
ineffective, and yet is carried out upon the more highly developed
line of associated effort, may represent a finer social quality and
have a greater social value than the more effective individual
action. It is possible that an individual may be successful,
largely because he conserves all his powers for individual
achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training
which will give him the ability to act with others....
Jane Addams, the co-founder of Hull House, the famous settlement
home, writes about her experiences and insights in her
autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull House. As a child growing up in
Illinois, Addams suffered from Pott's Disease, which was a rare
infection in her spine. This disease caused her to contract many
other illnesses, then because of these aliments, Addams was
self-conscious of her appearance. She explains that she could not
play with other children often due to a limp, a side effect to her
illnesses. Still, she is able to provide relatable and even amusing
childhood anecdotes. Addams was very close to her father. She
admired him for his political work, which likely inspired her own
interest and attention to the social problems of her society. In a
time invested with xenophobia and cruelty towards immigrants,
Addams bought land in Chicago and co-founded a settlement house
named Hull House. There, Addams sought to improve the lives of
immigrants and the poor by providing shelter, essential social
services, and access to education. Addams served as an advocate not
only for the impoverished and immigrants, but also for women. She
was a leader within the women's suffrage movement, determined to
expand the work she did for her community to a national scale.
Twenty Years at Hull House provides both a conversation about
social issues and an example of how to act against them. Though
originally published in 1910, Addams autobiography provides social
discourse that is not only still relevant, but also considered
radical by some. Addams' autobiography was well received when it
was first released, impacting many key reform movements. Twenty
Years at Hull House still carries that effect today, inspiring its
readers to improve their community and advocate for those in need.
This edition of Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams features
a new, eye-catching cover design and is printed in a readable font,
ready to inspire readers to follow the footsteps and musings of
activist Jane Addams.
Jane Addams, the co-founder of Hull House, the famous settlement
home, writes about her experiences and insights in her
autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull House. As a child growing up in
Illinois, Addams suffered from Pott's Disease, which was a rare
infection in her spine. This disease caused her to contract many
other illnesses, then because of these aliments, Addams was
self-conscious of her appearance. She explains that she could not
play with other children often due to a limp, a side effect to her
illnesses. Still, she is able to provide relatable and even amusing
childhood anecdotes. Addams was very close to her father. She
admired him for his political work, which likely inspired her own
interest and attention to the social problems of her society. In a
time invested with xenophobia and cruelty towards immigrants,
Addams bought land in Chicago and co-founded a settlement house
named Hull House. There, Addams sought to improve the lives of
immigrants and the poor by providing shelter, essential social
services, and access to education. Addams served as an advocate not
only for the impoverished and immigrants, but also for women. She
was a leader within the women's suffrage movement, determined to
expand the work she did for her community to a national scale.
Twenty Years at Hull House provides both a conversation about
social issues and an example of how to act against them. Though
originally published in 1910, Addams autobiography provides social
discourse that is not only still relevant, but also considered
radical by some. Addams' autobiography was well received when it
was first released, impacting many key reform movements. Twenty
Years at Hull House still carries that effect today, inspiring its
readers to improve their community and advocate for those in need.
This edition of Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams features
a new, eye-catching cover design and is printed in a readable font,
ready to inspire readers to follow the footsteps and musings of
activist Jane Addams.
Published in 1910, this was Addams's most successful book; 80,000
copies were sold before her death in 1935. This annotated edition
was issued on the occasion of the Hull-House centennial. "Twenty
Years at Hull-House is an indispensable classic of American
intellectual and social history, and remains a rich source of
provocative social theory. Jane Addams was both an activist of
courage and 'a thinker of originality and daring.' Her life and
writings exemplify the integration of social thought and action.
Addams and her associates at Hull-House had wide-ranging influence
not only on the key reform movements of their time but also on
major currents of philosophical, sociological, and political
thought. Filled with careful empirical observations, reflections on
everyday life, accounts of practical action, and prescriptions for
public policy, this small volume also embodies such important
theoretical contributions as 'The Necessity of Social Settlement,'
'A Decade of Economic Discussion,' 'Tolstoyism,' and 'Problems of
Poverty.' Long acclaimed for its autobiographical and historical
value, Twenty Years at Hull-House should be read today as much for
its enduring insights, critical analyses, and persuasive
vision."--Bernice A. Carroll, editor of Liberating Women's History:
Theoretical and Critical Essays
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