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Train Up a Child:

Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

ISBN-13: 9780801884955
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
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Local release date: 13/02/2007
Format: Hardback 304 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Education [JN]

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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.

Preface1. Private Schools and Old Order Life2. Old Order Schools and Old Order Identities3. The Swartzentruber Schools4. Small Schools in Small Settlements5. Mainstream Amish Schools6. Progressive Amish Schools7. Old Order Mennonite Schools in Lancaster County8. Publish or Perish9. What's Education For?AppendixesA. InformantsB. Schools and LocationsC. Hectograph RecipeD. Representative School SchedulesNotesBibliographyIndex

""Train Up a Child makes a valuable contribution in illustrating how Old Order education, in myriad ways, reflects and conserves the values and commitments of Old Order communities. It makes an equally valuable contribution in what it implicitly says about the current state of secular education.""

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