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THE SOCIAL SETTLEMENT OF JANE ADDAMS: A SUCCESS EXPERIENCE OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION (CHICAGO, 1889)

The research will rebuild the education method of the United States sociologist Laura Jane Addams (1860 , Cedarville – 1935, Chicago), Nobel prize in 1931. She was very interesting in European immigrants problems in Chicago during the Nineteen century. The survey first phase will concern the analysis of some Addams’s essays which describe her experience at Hull House. So we will go over the Social Settlement phases, a big house creating by her with the collaboration of her college colleague and an American social reformer Ellen Gates Starr ( 1859, Laona – 1940, New York), in one of the worst suburbs of Chicago: the west end According to Addams, female and male children, in their first education phase, learn from the street, so school is the next place of learning. The street experiences, lived by children, would represent the basis where teachers must start the school path. The constant matrix which leads the survey, will be that of the gender studies, thus we observethis phenomenon through the gender perspective. Addams’s project will be compared with other education and integration practices concerning immigrants, experimented in different periods, to assess diverse results and create the premise on which we can develop an ex novo pattern that could be used in our globalization society.