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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Axtell, James
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| Publisher: |
W. W. Norton & Company
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| Date: |
09/01/1976
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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The School Upon a Hill is the first attempt to portray a view of education that, in the author's words, "enables us to see the educational process if not actually through children's eyes at least from their position in a Lilliputian universe." Its subject is socialization: the ways in which children in colonial New England were educated for life in society--whether it was the family, the church, or the larger community--and what they were taught that transformed them from cultureless newborns into functioning, obedient, and cooperative members of a distinctive society and culture.
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