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Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

Name: Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801884955
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Contributors:

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Education, Religion

Book Subcategory:

History, Christian Education, Christianity

Book Topic:

Amish

Series:

Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

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Release Date:

2006-12-01

ISBN 13:

9780801884955

Weight:

1.21 lbs

Size:

9.52 x 5.76 x 0.95 inches

Pages:

304

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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.

About the Author

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner is an associate professor of linguistic anthropology and the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

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