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

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.

Author: James Axtell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/1976
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780393008241