Jane Addams: Socialized

Education
Jane Addams
• Born on September 6,1860
• Died on May 21,1935
• the founder of Hull-House
• a pioneering leader in social work, the peace
movement, and women’s rights
• developed an educational philosophy called
socialized education.
• She based her educational theory on her
efforts to improve the living and working
conditions of immigrants in Chicago and to
mobilize women to work for social and
educational reforms.
Hull-House
• Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened
the Hull-House.The Museum is comprised of
two of the settlement complex's original
thirteen buildings, the Hull-Home and the
Residents' Dining Hall.
 Principles of Teaching and Learning

• Education had to take on new and broadened social

purposes.

•Believing that cultural diversity could coexist with and

contribute to America’s broad common culture
•Addams wanted public schools to include the
history, customs, songs, crafts, and stories of
various ethnic and racial groups in the
curriculum.
 Education and Schooling
• Addams’s “socialized education,” influenced
by progressivism and pragmatism.
Progressivism-education should focus on the
whole child
Pragmatism-education should be about life
and growth.
• The curriculum should be reconstituted to
provide broadened experiences, highlighted
connections with technological society.

• Addams’ enlarged concept of teaching as

having a social mission has important
implications for preservice teacher education
 Influence on Educational Practices
Today

• Education must be free from gender biases

corresponds with the goals of contemporary
women’s education, especially equal rights for
women.