Logic of Home in the Post-Truth Era: Lydia Maria Child and Jane Addams

• In Event: 34.097 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Four - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 34.097-1 - Lives, Legacies, and Communities

Abstract

In response to the call for envisioning ways to leverage educational research in the “post-truth” era, the current global order I forward the logic of home, an indigenous philosophical perspective taken up in feminist pragmatist scholarship (Pratt, 2002) as a significant contribution to the conversations surrounding social and political transformation to research characterized by dialogue, social justice, civility, equity, and growth. In this paper I examine the logic of home presented in the life experiences and work of Jane Addams, a 19th century feminist pragmatist, and Lydia Child, an early 18th century American ancestor to the women progressives of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Author

• Becky M. Atkinson, The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa