Gal / Köngeter / Vicary The Settlement House Movement Revisited

A Transnational History
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5426-0
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Research in Social Work

This book explores the role and impact of the settlement house movement in the global development of social welfare and the social work profession.

It traces the transnational history of settlement houses and examines the interconnections between the settlement house movement, other social and professional movements and social research.

Looking at how the settlement house movement developed across different national, cultural and social boundaries, this book show that by understanding its impact, we can better understand the wider global development of social policy, social research and the social work profession.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gal, John

Köngeter, Stefan

Vicary, Sarah

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vicary, Sarah

Malies, Steven

Copperman, Jeanette

Crath, Rory

Bradley, Kate

Shewell, Hugh

Wietschorke, Jens

Ginn, Geoffrey A.C.

Avnir, Yehudit

Branco, Francisco

Levy Simon, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ~ John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah Vicary

PART 1: The transnational transfer of the settlement house idea

A brief transnational history of the Settlement House Movement ~ Stefan Köngeter

Berlin’s municipal socialism: A transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City ~ Barbara Levy Simon

The French maisons sociales, Chicago’s Hull-House scheme and their influence in Portugal ~ Francisco Branco

Settlement houses and the emergence of social work in Mandatory Palestine ~ John Gal and Yehudit Avnir

PART 2: The interface between the Settlement House Movement and other social movements

University Extension and the settlement idea ~ Geoffrey A.C. Ginn

Between social mission and social reform: The Settlement House Movement in Germany, 1900-1930 ~ Jens Wietschorke

To be an Englishman and a Jew: Basil Henriques and the Bernhard Baron Oxford and St. George’s Settlement House ~ Hugh Shewell

The English settlements, the Poor Man’s Lawyer and social work, circa 1890-1939 ~ Kate Bradley

PART 3: Research in settlement houses and its impact

Putting knowledge into action: A social work perspective on settlement house research ~ Dayana Lau

Animating objectivity: a Chicago settlement’s use of numeric and aesthetic knowledges to render its immigrant neighbours and neighbourhood knowable ~ Rory Crath

PART 4: Final Reflections

‘The soul of the community’: two practitioners reflect on history, place and community in two community-based practices from 1980 to 1995: St Hilda’s Community Centre in Bethnal Green and Waterloo Action Centre in Waterloo, South London ~ Jeanette Copperman and Steven Malies

Conclusion ~ Sarah Vicary

Über Autor(innen)

Gal, John
John Gal is professor and dean at the Paul Baewald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on social policy in a comparative perspective and on policy practice among social workers.

John Gal is a Professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Stefan Köngeter is a Professor and Co-Head of the Research Institute for Social Work and Social Spaces at the University of Applied Science, St. Gallen.

Sarah Vicary is Associate Head of School in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University.