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Who Are the Amish? Get Started on Everything You Need to Know as a Social Worker, Educator, or Advocate WORKBOOK - By the Foremost Expert on the Amish
"This opened my eyes. I didn't know there was so much to know about the Amish." - Dana K.
This workbook is aimed at social workers, educators, and advocates who are interested in Amish culture and who want to serve the Amish population.
At the end of this workbook, you'll be able
Identify Amish vs. Mennonites
Describe Amish culture vs. religion
Master 3 do s and don'ts when visiting Amish Country
Explain why Amish children stop school at the 8th grade
About Torah. Torah Bontrager is 11 when she decides to leave the Amish.
After four years of planning her escape, she flees in the middle of the night with only the clothes on her back and $170 in her pocket.
Her departure is permanent.
Torah is a graduate of Columbia University and her story and work have been featured or appeared Tim Ferriss blog, Forbes.com, WBGO, NPR, MTV, and HuffPost, among others. She teaches offline and online courses on Amish cultural literacy for social workers, educators, and advocates.
This workbook is aimed at social workers, educators, and advocates who are interested in Amish culture and who want to serve the Amish population.
At the end of this workbook, you'll be able
Identify Amish vs. Mennonites
Describe Amish culture vs. religion
Master 3 do s and don'ts when visiting Amish Country
Explain why Amish children stop school at the 8th grade
About Torah. Torah Bontrager is 11 when she decides to leave the Amish.
After four years of planning her escape, she flees in the middle of the night with only the clothes on her back and $170 in her pocket.
Her departure is permanent.
Torah is a graduate of Columbia University and her story and work have been featured or appeared Tim Ferriss blog, Forbes.com, WBGO, NPR, MTV, and HuffPost, among others. She teaches offline and online courses on Amish cultural literacy for social workers, educators, and advocates.
30 pages, Unknown Binding
Published December 31, 2020
About the author
Torah Bontrager
7 books2 followersTorah Bontrager, born and raised traditional Amish, speaks English as a second language and grew up with no electricity, no TV, no radio, no Internet, no cars, and up until the age of 10, no running hot water and no indoor bathroom.
She's the author of Amish Girl in Manhattan (a crime memoir) and is, to her knowledge, the first--and so far, only--Amish escapee to graduate from an Ivy League school.
Torah's story and work have been featured on Tim Ferriss' blog, Forbes.com, NPR, MTV, and HuffPost. She has a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University in New York City, and now advocates for the right of Amish women and children to go to school beyond the 8th grade.
Get FREE chapters of AGIM or her weekly Amish Insider about Amish life and your education rights at TorahBontrager.com
You can also find her on social media.
She's the author of Amish Girl in Manhattan (a crime memoir) and is, to her knowledge, the first--and so far, only--Amish escapee to graduate from an Ivy League school.
Torah's story and work have been featured on Tim Ferriss' blog, Forbes.com, NPR, MTV, and HuffPost. She has a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University in New York City, and now advocates for the right of Amish women and children to go to school beyond the 8th grade.
Get FREE chapters of AGIM or her weekly Amish Insider about Amish life and your education rights at TorahBontrager.com
You can also find her on social media.
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