Train Up a Child

Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2007
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8495-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.2.2007
Reihe/Serie	Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Zusatzinfo	3 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Religionspädagogik / Katechetik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-8018-8495-0 / 0801884950
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-8495-5 / 9780801884955
Zustand	Neuware