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Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools (Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies)

By Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

Book information

Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0801884950, 9780801884955
LCC
LC586.A45 J64 2007
Open Library ID
OL17169663M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2718964 bytes)
Series
Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
305\305
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Train Up a Child explores how private schools in Old Order Amish communities reflect and perpetuate church-community values and identity. Here, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner asserts that the reinforcement of those values among children is imperative to the survival of these communities in the modern world. Surveying settlements in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, Johnson-Weiner finds that, although Old Order communities have certain similarities in their codes of conduct, there is no standard Old Order school. She examines the choices each community makes -- about pedagogy, curriculum, textbooks, even school design -- to strengthen religious ideology, preserve the social and linguistic markers of Old Order identity, and protect their own community's beliefs and values from the influence of the dominant society. In the most comprehensive study of Old Order schools to date, Johnson-Weiner provides valuable insight into how variables such as community size and relationship with other Old Order groups affect the role of these schools in maintaining behavioral norms and in shaping the Old Order's response to modernity.

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