By Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
Train Up a Child explores how deepest colleges in outdated Order Amish groups replicate and perpetuate church-community values and identification. right here, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner asserts that the reinforcement of these values between little ones is significant to the survival of those groups within the sleek global.
Surveying settlements in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and long island, Johnson-Weiner unearths that, even if previous Order groups have convinced similarities of their codes of behavior, there's no common outdated Order college. She examines the alternatives each one neighborhood makes―about pedagogy, curriculum, textbooks, even university design―to boost spiritual ideology, shield the social and linguistic markers of previous Order identification, and safeguard their very own community's ideals and values from the effect of the dominant society.
In the main accomplished learn of previous Order faculties so far, Johnson-Weiner offers helpful perception into how variables resembling neighborhood measurement and courting with different previous Order teams impact the function of those colleges in holding behavioral norms and in shaping the previous Order's reaction to modernity.
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