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The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England

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The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England - Axtell, James
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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 ...

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The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England 1976, WW Norton & Co

ISBN-13: 9780393008241

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The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England 1974, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300017236

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