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Sympathy and Science: Social Settlements and Museums Forging the Future through a Usable Past

Affiliates of the United States settlement house movement provided a historical precedent for engaged, community-centered museum practice. Their innovations upon the social survey, a key sociological data collection and data visualization tool, as well as their efforts to interpret results via innovative, culturally democratic exhibition techniques, had a contemporary impact on both museum practice and the history of social work. This impact resonates in the socially-responsive work of community museums of the recent past. The ethics of settlement methodology- including flexibility, experimentalism, empathetic practice, local community focus, and social justice activism- foreshadow the precepts and practices of what is now known as public history. / History

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TEMPLE/oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/1414
Date January 2018
CreatorsHeider, Cynthia
ContributorsLowe, Hilary Iris, Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975-, Lopez, Lisa J.
PublisherTemple University. Libraries
Source SetsTemple University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation, Text
Format98 pages
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Relationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1396, Theses and Dissertations

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