Train Up a Child

Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8495-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson-Weiner, Karen M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Andere und Moderne Christliche Glaubensgemeinschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Private Schools and Old Order Life
2. Old Order Schools and Old Order Identities
3. The Swartzentruber Schools
4. Small Schools in Small Settlements
5. Mainstream Amish Schools
6. Progressive Amish Schools
7. Old Order Mennonite Schools in Lancaster County
8. Publish or Perish
9. What's Education For?
Appendixes
A. Informants
B. Schools and Locations
C. Hectograph Recipe
D. Representative School Schedules
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson-Weiner, Karen M
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.

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.