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EDUC 5420 Written Assignment Unit 7

This document discusses Rumspringa, a period in Amish life where adolescents are allowed freedom before joining the church. During Rumspringa from around age 16, Amish youth are no longer fully controlled by parents and not under church authority on weekends. While parents don't encourage sinful behavior, they don't prevent all behaviors either. This period allows for free choice in deciding to become Amish. It's important to understand how individuals weigh social conventions, personal jurisdiction, and others' welfare in making moral decisions.

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EDUC 5420 Written Assignment Unit 7

This document discusses Rumspringa, a period in Amish life where adolescents are allowed freedom before joining the church. During Rumspringa from around age 16, Amish youth are no longer fully controlled by parents and not under church authority on weekends. While parents don't encourage sinful behavior, they don't prevent all behaviors either. This period allows for free choice in deciding to become Amish. It's important to understand how individuals weigh social conventions, personal jurisdiction, and others' welfare in making moral decisions.

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Written Assignment Unit 7

University of the People

EDUC 5420 Adolescent Development

Written Assignment Unit 7

Date: March 15, 2023

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In this written assignment requirement, I feel the challenging behaviors

undertaken by adolescents during Rumspringa which is a period in an Amish person's life

when they are allowed to go out and experience the world before taking their vows,

getting married and joining the church. It means during the period known as Rumspringa,

beginning at about age 16, Amish youth are no longer under the total control of their

parents on weekends and, because they are not baptized, they are not yet under the

authority of the church. During this period, they are free to choose and hold their

responsible for the consequences of their decision.

However, Amish parents do not encourage their youth to leave home and

experiment with sinful behaviors nor do they condone it. At the same time, there must be

at least a semblance of free choice in the decision to become Amish. Amish parents may

disapprove of their teens’ behaviors, but do not necessarily exercise authority to prevent

some of those behaviors. Disagreements over beliefs, practices, and church doctrines

slowly fractured the community into different affiliations (Hurst & McConnell, 2010).

Educational implications for moral decisions by their families and communities,

for social conventions are uniformities within social systems, serving to provide uniform

expectations. Individuals do reason about social relationships in different ways,

accounting for societal customs and conventions as well as arenas of personal jurisdiction

and choice. A significant aspect of orientations to social relationships is reasoning about

the welfare and rights of people, as well as concerns with justice. Therefore, it is

important to understand how individuals weigh and balance different considerations in

coming to decisions in social contexts (Turiel & Banas, 2020).

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References
Hurst, C.E and McConnell, D.L. (2010). An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the
World's Largest Amish Community.
Turiel, E. and Banas, K. A. (2020). The Development of Moral and Social Judgments:
Social Contexts and Processes of Coordination. Eurasian Journal of Educational
Research, n85 p23-44 2020

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