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Educational Achievement and Life Styles in A Traditional Society, the Old Order Amish. Final Report.
Download full textHostetler, John A. – 1969
This extensive report is concerned with socialization patterns and the impact of change on rearing the young. Specific objectives were: (1) construction of the "core culture" of the traditional community and its relation to educational patterns, (2) description of socialization patterns through the life cycle in the traditional community…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Amish, Child Rearing, Children
Hostetler, John A. – 1972
This paper summarizes the issues underlying the Amish conflicts with public school consolidation and the enforcement of extended compulsory school-age limits. It calls attention to a long-standing strategy for community control of schools contributing to the maintenance of a culturally divergent minority group tradition. None of the traditional…
Descriptors: Amish, Community Control, Cultural Background, Cultural Isolation
