13.010 - Roots of Education for Social Justice on the Near West Side of Chicago: Jane Addams's Hull House

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

Relating to the AERA's 2015 meeting theme of Social Justice through Culture, Action and Research, this "off-site" event will discuss the historical roots of and contemporary innovations in education and social action to realize social justice in Chicago. Professor Mary Jo Deegan, who is the author of Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School: 1892-1918, will speak. She will discuss how Jane Addams’ pioneering work in what we now call qualitative methodologies was incorporated by professors of sociology at the University of Chicago and shaped approaches to research and social action. There will be ample time for discussion. This will be followed by brief presentations by organizers of current social justice projects dealing with civic involvement, community psychology and with first generation college students in these neighborhoods. A tour of the Hull House Museum will be included (and an optional Dutch treat lunch in Greektown will follow the event).

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Visit Leader

• Judith V. Torney-Purta, University of Maryland - College Park

Participants

• Mary Jo Deegan, University of Nebraska

• Julio Guerrero, La Casa