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Settlement (as the English word is used as technical term borrowed by the Hungarian language<\/em>) is one of the oldest forerunners of the socialised institutional mode of operation. A \u2018settlement\u2019 could today be described, on the one hand, as a community development centre and on the other hand, as a multifunctional integrated human public service provider institution.
\nThe most important examples include the Toynbee Hall in the East End of London (1884) or Hull House of Chicago (1889), or, in Hungary, the initiative called \u00dajpesti Szoci\u00e1lis F\u0151iskolai Telep<\/em> (social college settlement in the village of \u00dajpest) (1914-1949). The latter was launched as an institution fulfilling a true intellectual vocation with the aim of \u201craising\u201d and \u201ceducating\u201d the \u201cworking class\u201d, enabling university students to do field work to \u201creconcile\u201d social classes. It took the approach of establishing social institutions where poor people lived and it involved university students and volunteers in its activities. Voluntary activities played a major role in the operation of the institution in \u00dajpest as well, because it had little funding for paying staff members; therefore in its activities it involved teachers, professionals and tradesmen (e.g. for teaching housekeeping subjects) along with young people with social sensitiveness wishing to work for the benefit of others. The requisites for social advancement were provided by the General People Protection Department (its units: people\u2019s office, family patronage, youth patronage, trainee and employment exchange), the Public Education Department (its units: people\u2019s library, workers reading community, general knowledge dissemination lectures, training courses and seminars, children\u2019s daycare home, trainee young men\u2019s and women\u2019s and workers\u2019 circles, scouts) and the Social Health Agency (its units: pulmonary and venereal clinic and doctors\u2019 office, bacteriology and X-ray laboratory). In the caregiver, people\u2019s education and health activities professionals were joined by university and college students, practical field workers and volunteers.<\/p>\n

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Socialized Operation of Cultural Institutions : A methodological guide to community-based operation

Settlement (as the English word is used as technical term borrowed by the Hungarian language) is one of the oldest forerunners of the socialised institutional mode of operation. A \u2018settlement\u2019 could today be described, on the one hand, as a community development centre and on the other hand, as a multifunctional integrated human public service Continue reading