STUDENT TEACHING: ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Authors
Brickman, Barbara L.
Issue Date
1986
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Thesis
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en_US
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The Midwestern Academy of the New Church is a small
private parochial school located in a suburb north of
Chicago. It consists of freshman and sophomore grades in
high school. The purpose of the Midwestern Academy is religious
and secular instruction based upon principles from
the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. The goal
of the Academy is to educate students about the Lord, the
church, and the world around them, and to prepare them for
integration, as useful members, into society. This is facilitated
by close cooperation between school and home.
Most of the fifteen students (seven freshmen and eight
sophomores) live in the small community built around the
church and school. Most have attended the elementary
school which operates in conjunction with the high school
and shares most of its faculty. The community has developed
around the church and school over time, and the parents
of many of the students were also educated there.
Because of the small size of the community and the
fact that most of the students live very near one another,
the students grow up with mostly the same group, from preschool
through sophomore year. Many students have parents
who teach in the schools, and there is a close cooperation
between the faculty and most of the parents.
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