Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools

by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884950
• ISBN13: 9780801884955
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.5"