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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.
| Advisor: | Lowe, Hilary I. |
| Commitee: | Bruggeman, Seth C., Lopez, Lisa J. |
| School: | Temple University |
| Department: | History |
| School Location: | United States -- Pennsylvania |
| Source: | MAI 58/01M(E), Masters Abstracts International |
| Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
| Subjects: | American history, Social research, Museum studies |
| Keywords: | Data visualization, History of social work, Museum practice, Public history, Settlement house, Social survey |
| Publication Number: | 10842264 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-438-30857-2 |
