Description
Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewWell produced, based on archival and participant-observer research, with a useful bibliography. -- Steven Reschly Journal of Mennonite Studies 2008 Train Up a Child makes a valuable contribution in illustrating how Old Order education, in myriad ways, reflects and conserves the values and commitments of Old Order communities. It makes an equally valuable contribution in what it implicitly says about the current state of secular education. -- Kevin H. Gary Mennonite Quarterly Review 2008
Table of ContentsPreface
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
