ABSTRACT
This chapter traces that commitment and contends that Jane Addams's pedagogy, as embodied in the actual work of her settlement, represents a radically egalitarian strain of education that existed in opposition to traditional learning environments that were often inhospitable to the needs of both women and America's immigrant poor. Addams believed a fact that, 'add the social function to democracy'. That is, propelling all of its various educational, artistic, and practical programs designed to address the needs of America's immigrant poor, it would offer an unswerving commitment to helping individuals see one another with the compassion and clarity born of historical conscientiousness. Addams becomes more than a social reformer and an imaginative pedagogical theorist who realized that the artist, a kind of qualitative researcher of social disease, could use her imaginative tools to ameliorate real problems in the human condition by culturally rehabilitating interpersonal relationships.
