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Jane Addams's evolutionary theorizing : constructing \Democracy and social ethics\
\"This book tells the story of how Jane Addams, during her first decade at Hull House, used social evolutionary thinking to develop a method of ethical deliberation. Addams presented her method for addressing the most troubling social problems of the era in Democracy and Social Ethics (1902), a foundational text of classical American pragmatism.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
Affluent friends assisted her mission by creating schools, playgrounds, public baths, galleries, and other needed services.
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Jane Addams : social worker and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Describes the life of the woman whose devotion to social work led to her establishing Hull House in Chicago and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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The Size of Others' Burdens
Americans have a fierce spirit of individualism. We pride ourselves on self-reliance, on bootstrapping our way to success. Yet, we also believe in helping those in need, and we turn to our neighbors in times of crisis. The tension between these competing values is evident, and how we balance between these competing values holds real consequences for community health and well-being. In his new book, The Size of Others' Burdens, Erik Schneiderhan asks how people can act in the face of competing pressures, and explores the stories of two famous Americans to develop present-day lessons for improving our communities.
Although Jane Addams and Barack Obama are separated by roughly one hundred years, the parallels between their lives are remarkable: Chicago activists-turned-politicians, University of Chicago lecturers, gifted orators, crusaders against discrimination, winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Addams was the founder of Hull-House, the celebrated American \"settlement house\" that became the foundation of modern social work. Obama's remarkable rise to the presidency is well known.
Through the stories of Addams's and Obama's early community work, Erik Schneiderhan challenges readers to think about how many of our own struggles are not simply personal challenges, but also social challenges. How do we help others when so much of our day-to-day life is geared toward looking out for ourselves, whether at work or at home? Not everyone can run for president or win a Nobel Prize, but we can help others without sacrificing their dignity or our principles. Great thinkers of the past and present can give us the motivation; Addams and Obama show us how. Schneiderhan highlights the value of combining today's state resources with the innovation and flexibility of Addams's time to encourage community building. Offering a call to action, this book inspires readers to address their own American dilemma and connect to community, starting within our own neighborhoods.
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The house that Jane built : a story about Jane Addams
\"This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center.\"--Amazon.com.
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Disability and the Playing Field: Jane Addams, Sports, and the Possibility of Inclusion
Jane Addams analyzes recreation, and particularly sports, as a domain in which people are “revealed” to one another, affording sympathetic knowledge of the other. This function is integral to a democratic way of life; thus, she maintains that cities have an obligation to provide recreational opportunity. Some disability theorists challenge whether athletics can serve this revelatory function in contexts of disability, since esteem for an athletic performance supposedly takes place against a backdrop of “normal” functioning. On this view, disabled people might be subjects of “social inclusion,” the recognition of someone as an abstract bearer of rights, but not “community inclusion,” recognized as a subject of love or esteem by virtue of some contribution to a publicly acknowledged good. In this article I contend that Addams's comments on confronting disability's isolating barriers in the context of education disclose the malleability of this background and afford an avenue for understanding the potential for athletics to serve as a locus of community inclusion for disabled people.
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Jane Addams : spirit in action
Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of the leading figures of the Progressive era. This \"pragmatic visionary,\" as Knight calls her, is best known as the creator of Hull House, a model settlement house offering training, shelter, and culture for Chicago's poor. Addams also involved herself in a long list of Progressive campaigns. Her rhetorical skills as both speaker and writer made her internationally recognized as a supporter of civil rights, woman suffrage, and labor reform.
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Jane Addams in the Classroom
Once intent on being good to people, Jane Addams later dedicated herself to the idea of being good with people, establishing mutually-responsive and reciprocal relationships with those she served at Hull House. The essays in Jane Addams in the Classroom explore how Addams's life, work, and philosophy provide invaluable lessons for teachers seeking connection with their students. Balancing theoretical and practical considerations, the collection examines Addams's emphasis on listening to and learning from those around her and encourages contemporary educators to connect with students through innovative projects and teaching methods. In the first essays, Addams scholars lay out how her narratives drew on experience, history, and story to explicate theories she intended as guides to practice. Six teacher-scholars then establish Addams's ongoing relevance by connecting her principles to exciting events in their own classrooms. An examination of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and a fictional essay on Addams's work and ideas round out the volume. Accessible and wide-ranging, Jane Addams in the Classroom offers inspiration for educators while adding to the ongoing reconsideration of Addams's contributions to American thought. Contributors: Todd DeStigter, Lanette Grate, Susan Griffith, Lisa Junkin, Jennifer Krikava, Lisa Lee, Petra Munro, Bridget O'Rourke, David Schaafsma, Beth Steffen, Darren Tuggle, Erin Vail, and Ruth Vinz.
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