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.
| ISBN: | 9780393008241 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 1976 |
| Author: | James Axtell |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Series: | The Norton Library |
| Genres: |
Education |
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.
The School Upon a Hill features in the following genres: Education
The School Upon a Hill is available in Paperback
The School Upon a Hill was written by James Axtell and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
The School Upon a Hill has 298 pages
Yes it is part of The Norton Library series