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Cowles, Spencer L.

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Charting a third way in minority education: Transformative community in the Old Order Mennonite Church.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Charting a third way in minority education: Transformative community in the Old Order Mennonite Church./
Author:	Cowles, Spencer L.
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0853.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-03A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3083101
ISBN:	0496309115

Charting a third way in minority education: Transformative community in the Old Order Mennonite Church.
Cowles, Spencer L.

Charting a third way in minority education: Transformative community in the Old Order Mennonite Church. - 252 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0853.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2003.

According to George Spindler (1997b), a founder of the field of anthropology of education, the defining focus of the field is its analysis of cultural transmission. Bourdieu (1977) and others have argued that the school systems of the modern technological society are engaged in a project of reproducing the majority culture. The underlying aims, assumptions, and structures of public education in the U.S., rooted in the human capital needs of an economy driven by individualism, competition, and technicism, are inhospitable ground for those who do not share this worldview. But the schools are the only route into the formal economic system and so minority groups face the unpalatable choice of risking assimilation into the majority culture or resisting in ways which are often dysfunctional, threatening the identities and the practical viability of these groups.

ISBN: 0496309115Subjects--Topical Terms:

626654
Education, Sociology of.

Charting a third way in minority education: Transformative community in the Old Order Mennonite Church.
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520 $a This dissertation develops a model for interpreting the long-term success of certain groups which have opted out of the majority system in order to sustain their way of life. These minority groups are designated as transformative community which refers to the fundamental dynamic of community life and of individual identity as the pursuit of an ideal way of life. As such, the fundamental definition of these groups differs from conventional construals of minority which are often seen as deriving their existences and identities on the basis of some form of tension---be it resistance, accommodation, or assimilation---with respect to the dominant majority. The operational aspect of this endeavor is designated as durable cultural model which is a means of enabling the transformative group to construct its own way of life on a sustainable basis. Durable cultural model is built up out of alternative structures of community, education, and occupation.
520 $a These models have been developed, in part, by means of an extensive ethnographic study of one of the Old Order Mennonite groups of Rockingham County which evidences how transformative community and durable cultural model work in practice.
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