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Train up a child : Old Order Amish & Mennonite schools / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson-Weiner, Karen.
- Series:
- Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
- Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amish children--Education.
- Amish children.
- Mennonite children--Education.
- Mennonite children.
- Amish--Social life and customs.
- Amish.
- Old Order Mennonites--Social life and customs.
- Old Order Mennonites.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Private schools and old order life
- Old order schools and old order identities
- The Swartzentruber schools
- Small schools in small settlements
- Mainstream Amish schools
- Progressive Amish schools
- Old Order Mennonite schools in Lancaster County
- Publish or perish
- What's education for?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9240-6
- 1-4356-9211-X
- OCLC:
- 923193010
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