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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Jane Addams"”.
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A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Speeches by Jane Addams
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Jane Addams and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Learning to Listen with the Other
… situated in both Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jane Addams. The bulk of the dissertation is unpacking this general theory of listening based on Gadamer’s and Addams’s thought.</p>
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The Search for a Theoretical Framework for Long-term Disaster Recovery Efforts: A Normative Application of Jane Addams' Social Democratic Theory and Ethics
… this research first tests the feasibility of Jane Addams' social democratic theory and ethics for use as a theoretical framework for long-term disaster recovery. The research also explores the degree to which nonprofit organizations already implement elements of Addams' theory and ethics in …
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Experiments in Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement in Chicago, 1890-1910
… women central to the movement. Reformers such as Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, and Mary McDowell fused their personal motives to their expanding assumptions regarding public welfare in their pursuit of social salvation. The settlement community advanced a methodology of experimentation and …
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Playing the man: Masculinity, performance, and United States foreign policy, 1901--1920
… identity. It focuses on five public figures (Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson). Although their conceptions of masculinity varied, each of these central historical figures based his or her US foreign policy position on the idea that in the conduct …
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Principles for Education of The Social Reconstructionists and Critical Theorists: A Yardstick of Democracy
… upon the tenets of John Dewey, George S. Counts, Jane Addams, Paulo Freire, and Michael Apple. Included in the study is a concentrated review of standards-based education testing, and the charter school movement in America. A comparison to the Yardstick provides evidence that many of the programs …
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Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity
… styles, Progressive-era realists such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather, Afro-Modernist bohemians like Wallace Thurman and Richard Bruce Nugent, and transatlantic Anglo-American Modernists such as Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes renovate a genre traditionally dedicated to sexual …
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
… Lords</em> (CVL), which was co-created with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Both Chicago institutions worked with public housing residents and the former CVL, a 1960s gang, to give voice to two often unheard communities. Through an anthropological and museum studies perspective, this thesis …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… for many social reformers such as Jacob Riis and Jane Addams, was ensuring that all of the nation's children and future citizens received care and attention. This dissertation analyzes the work of the following four significant figures to excavate connections between childhood, citizenship, and …
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Embracing Commonplace: Creating Ground for a Life of Rhetorically Engaged Civic Action
… rhetorician and social activist Jane Addams (1860-1935) provides a hermeneutic entrance point for identifying and understanding the ways in which faculty members in higher education might conduct service-learning in a more responsive and engaged manner.</p><p> Practicing situated …
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Multiple Community Services: One Family's Experience
… years of the 20th century when progressives like Jane Addams worked to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and their families. Family support today is provided by multiple public and private agencies. How families experience these services is not well known. Such information could help …
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Civic Dignity and Meaningful Political Participation
… and the political thought and example of Jane Addams in 19th Century Chicago. It begins with Josiah Ober’s work on civic dignity, which he defines as “equal high standing” among citizens, marked by “non-infantilization and non-humiliation.” This definition is a useful starting point but …
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Immersive, Participatory, Community-Based Research and Learning
… methods and practices of pioneering sociologist Jane Addams’s culturally immersive, participatory, community-based research. Using a multimodal design, the three studies document the scholarly progression from discovery, through practice and development of pedagogical methods, to immersive field …
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The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive
… Lives, Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, and Jane Addams, founder of Hull House. The digital archive is specifically focused on Riis and former US president Theodore Roosevelt, the latter of whom was the founding member of the Progressive Party. This approach presents two different ways that …
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Coming of Age in Neoliberal New York
… and youth at the center, melding the politics of Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs and offering an alternative urban vision. </p>
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Pragmatism and Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics
… of John Dewey, William James, Richard Rorty and Jane Addams; a view of meliorism that hearkens towards solidarity and not objectivity; one that is not only democratic, cognizant of contingencies and focused on habit, but also, by its insistence on viewing ourselves as members of communities and …
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The Steppenwolf Scenario: Establishing the habitus of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community
This study focuses on the history, development, and structuring elements of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community. My research, grounded in Diana Taylor’s concept of scenarios and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, takes a sociological lens to the historical antecedents and theatrical …