essay
Persistence and change in Amish education
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 76-95, 267-269
By: Huntington, Gertrude Enders.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The massive consolidation of public schools in the middle of the twentieth century endangered the traditional values of Amish education. In response, the Amish developed an extensive network of parochial schools that was endorsed by the U. S. Supreme Court in Wisconsin v. Yoder in 1972. Gertrude Enders Huntington chronicles the Amish struggle with the powerful forces of progress that assumed that all Americans would benefit from greater and greater doses of scientific learning and critical thinking. Huntington shows how Amish education has had to change in order to maintain and preserve its commitment to traditional values (p. 77).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Congregations
- Education system
- Teachers
- General character of religion
- Sociocultural trends
- Press
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Amish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gertruce Enders Huntington
- For bibliographical references see document 20: [Kraybill and Olshan]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94013668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish