Drawing on both Barthes' concepts of weariness, laziness, and boredom and Sartre's bad faith, this article analyzes Palestinian students' psychological discomfort with online education. As instructors of English, we have drawn not only on our own teaching experiences but have also analyzed the testimonies of our colleagues. We contend that online…

Purpose: Flexible learning is a delivery modality associated with positive outcomes, but its use at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with dark student experiences, such as poor interest and dishonesty among students. To understand how and why many tertiary students lost their motivation and became disengaged in pandemic-era…

During their studies, Roma university students enter into a milieu different from their family environment and this can affect their identity. In our research, we used life story interviews (N 5 108) to study Roma university students who attended Roma College for Advanced Studies (RCAS). We were interested in how their identities were formed and…

Students, particularly those at academic risk, often experience feelings of alienation and lack a sense of belonging. This can make them reluctant to seek help. A sense of belonging and the willingness to seek help are therefore closely linked. Persistent socioeconomic disparities, inherited from apartheid, make this especially challenging for…

Work avoidance, or the goal to reduce effort in an achievement context, is related to disengagement and may offer insight into disengaged students and employees. To shed light on this issue, we investigated the antecedents of work avoidance in academic and work contexts to distinguish it from mastery, performance-approach, and…

Some of the popular myths about the structure and motivation of university student revolt are dispelled. (MF)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

The research project was a panel, comparative and cross-sectional study of the attitudes of students toward other students, faculty members and administration of a small liberal arts college. Students from a large state university and a medium-sized Catholic university were used as comparison groups. The survey measured the student's definitions…

A survey of student opinion at the State University of New York at Buffalo showed that the students did not think that it was especially important for a university to prepare students for family responsibilities and relationships, to transmit society's current values and institutions, or to be a sanctuary. (Author/GB)

The present study was undertaken to clarify the relationship between 2 expressions of alienation, described as psychological alienation and activist political alienation, and to learn something of the characteristics of students who manifest these different expressions. Four general types of students are found in evidence. The first type are the…

Article based on testimony before the House Special Subcommittee on Education and reprinted from the "Washington Post (3/23/69) under the title of "The Perils of Overexposing Youth to College.

Originally published in Washington University Magazine, Fall, 1968.

This study examined the interaction effect of students, drugs, and alienation in a large university, i.e., the linkages of both social and political alienation with drug behavior. The interaction terms which composed these forms of alienation were evaluated as to their comparative ability to produce drug behavior. (Author)

The study shows that the nation wide picture of student misconduct in 1966 departs substantially from its reflection in the public media. Academic and drinking violations were more prevalent than other offenses of equal seriousness. Campus political activism and drug usage, on the other hand, were comparatively uncommon. (Author)