Train Up a Child
eBook - ePub

Train Up a Child

Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

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eBook - ePub

Train Up a Child

Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. CHAPTER 1. Private Schools and Old Order Life
  7. CHAPTER 2. Old Order Schools and Old Order Identities
  8. CHAPTER 3. The Swartzentruber Schools
  9. CHAPTER 4. Small Schools in Small Settlements
  10. CHAPTER 5. Mainstream Amish Schools
  11. CHAPTER 6. Progressive Amish Schools
  12. CHAPTER 7. Old Order Mennonite Schools in Lancaster County
  13. CHAPTER 8. Publish or Perish
  14. CHAPTER 9. What's Education For?
  15. APPENDIXES
  16. B. Schools and Locations
  17. C. Hectograph Recipe
  18. D. Representative School Schedules
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index