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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