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Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
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Hardback. 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. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 31, 28 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC99; HRCV2; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884955
SKU
V9780801884955
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About Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
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.
Reviews for Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools
Well produced, based on archival and participant-observer research, with a useful bibliography.
Steven Reschly Journal of Mennonite Studies 2008 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 ... Read more
Steven Reschly Journal of Mennonite Studies 2008 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 ... Read more