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Hayakawa, S. I. – Liberal Educ, 1970
Address given at annual meeting of Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, January 1970). (IR)
Descriptors: Activism, Attitude Change, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Hallberg, Edmond C. – Nat Assn Stud Personnel Admin, 1970
Suggests that the radical's lack of involvement and concern with process over content will lead to his defeat. Hopes, however, that radical violence will not obscure legitimate problems identified by activists willing to work for change. Presented at California Junior College Association, Anaheim, 1968. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Activism, Bureaucracy, Organizations (Groups), Power Structure
Download full textBrewster, Kingman, Jr. – 1969
At the root of student unrest are two basic factors: (1) the "involuntary campus," and (2) the "manipulated society." Many students attend a university not because they want to, but because of parental pressure, to avoid the draft, to get the right job, or to satisfy the notion that in order to be really accomplished it is…
Descriptors: Activism, Higher Education, Power Structure, Social Attitudes
Peer reviewedStrauss, George H. – Education and Urban Society, 1974
A survey of 1,457 students in 20 high schools in the New York Metropolitan Area reports data on how students evaluate the quality of school "Outputs," judge the correctness of power relations in the school, and react to the school power structure in terms of school reform and the student rights movement. (EH)
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Quality, Power Structure, Student Alienation
Peer reviewedBoykin, Arsene O. – Clearing House, 1969
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Role, Black Attitudes, Civil Disobedience
Maes, John L. – J Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Activism, Cultural Influences, Identification (Psychology), Power Structure
Thomson, Scott D. – J Secondary Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Activism, Black Power, Community Action, Hostility
Smart, John M. – J Higher Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Legislation, Higher Education, Political Issues
Peer reviewedMcGregor, Glenda – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2000
Offers an account of a group of high school students who translated critical thinking into action, through their Riverside High Social Justice and Equity Group. Illustrates the degree of discomfort that may be engendered when students offer other "readings" of their schools and attempt to rewrite power relations in active constructions…
Descriptors: Activism, Conflict, Critical Thinking, High School Students
Wittes, Simon – 1970
The study reported here is based on the belief that the social discontent that is frequently in evidence stems in part from individuals being trapped in dehumanizing organizational mazes which apply bureaucratic rules in an attempt to control human behavior in light of organizational needs. This investigation, therefore, set out to discover the…
Descriptors: Activism, Decision Making, Demonstrations (Civil), Dissent
