| The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England Contributor(s): Axtell, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 039300824X ISBN-13: 9780393008241 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1976 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | History - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 370.974 |
| LCCN: 76018268 |
| Series: Norton Library |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5" W x 8" (0.78 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |