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

By James Axtell

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039300824X
• ISBN13: 9780393008241
• Release Date: September 1976
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"