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7 - Quakers and Education

from Part II - Expressions of Quaker Faith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2018

Stephen W. Angell
Affiliation:
Earlham School of Religion, Indiana
Pink Dandelion
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
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This chapter surveys educational institutions, philosophies, and trends in schools started by Friends worldwide, examining both practical and religious dimensions of Friends’ education, with attention to how these have evolved within the different branches of Quakerism. It explores the nature of the “guarded and select” education that Quakers gave their own youth, and the ways they educated the poor and African Americans. It considers the effects of nineteenth-century Holiness revivals on Quaker education. It examines the recent growth of the religious and theological dimensions of Quaker studies. It also examines controversies that concern contemporary Quaker education, especially as it relates to the education of the children of the wealthy and powerful.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Suggested Further Reading

Campbell Stewart, W. A. (1971). Quakers and Education as Seen in Their Schools in England, London: Kennikat Press.Google Scholar
Hole, Helen G. (1978). Things Civil and Useful, a Personal View of Quaker Education, Richmond, IN: Friends United Press.Google Scholar
Lacey, Paul A. (1998). Growing into Goodness, Essays on Quaker Education, Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications and Friends Council on Education.Google Scholar
Oliver, John W. Jr., Cherry, Charles L., and Cherry, Caroline. (2007). Founded by Friends, the Quaker Heritage of Fifteen American Colleges and Universities, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.Google Scholar
Painter, Levinus King. (1966). The Hill of Vision, the Story of the Quaker Movement in East Africa, 1902–1965, East Africa Yearly Meeting of Friends.Google Scholar

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