The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England (Norton Library)
By James Axtell.
Description
“Provides a provocative new insight into the changing pattern of New England cultural and social history.” ―William and Mary QuarterlyThe 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 w...
ISBN(s)
039300824X, 9780393008241
