Train Up a Child - Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Johnson-Weiner, Karen M Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. (Professor Johnson-Weiner
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2007
• EAN: 9780801884955
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8495-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies; Young Center Books in Anabapti; Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies; Young Center Books in Anabapti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories