Rule violations are expected in schools, and assessments of the severity of those violations and the appropriate disciplinary responses are a significant aspect of educators' responsibilities. While most educators and policy makers reject rule violation as a permissible behavior in schools, is such a categorical rejection always a suitable…

An attempt is made to document some of the developments which affected the political role of German librarianship as seen through the involvements, activities, and correspondence of one of its leaders, George Leyh, during and after the Hitler era. The interconnections of Leyh's behavior, inner conflicts, and actions and the political and…

The present study was designed to assess some of the attitudinal and ideological factors associated with varying degrees of activism, or participation in political and social protest activities. (Author/JB)

Suggests that youth values of the 1970s, which centered upon hedonism, escapism, and a present orientation, influence a segment of youth today. Affluence, complex competitive pressures, and easy availability of success have made possible and encouraged self-oriented activity. Argues that countercultural activities produced these values and have,…

Examines assumptions of "oppositional" literary criticism, namely the assumption that older-style "objective" literary criticism must, in its political silence, be supportive of dominant ideologies. (TB)

The president of Yale University examines the tension between the values of community and harmony and of intellectual freedom on college campuses. He notes incidents at various campuses opposing expressions deemed offensive to some groups. He opposes suppression of unpopular voices (even if seemingly bigoted) and supports freedom of thought and…

In an effort to seek theoretical clarification, a modified version of Rokeach's typology of belief systems is used to examine the evidence for a gap between generations on different levels of beliefs. It appears that writers who have argued that a counterculture is emergin among the younger generation are concentrating on the value orientation…

Using published atrocity tales about the Unification Church, the authors attempt to illustrate how illegal actions and coercion by deprogramers and their supporters can serve to validate evil and legitimize social control. (PD)

This essay is a reminiscence of a life-shaping experience from the author's freshman year and an attempt to draw certain lessons from that experience for the freshmen of the eighties. He describes a personal discovery made at the "March on Washington" in 1963. (Author/MLW)

Examined tolerance of children's, adolescents', and young adults' judgments about dissenting beliefs, speech, practices, and people engaged in those practices. Found that tolerance of dissenting beliefs and speech increased with age. Tolerance was most common with dissenting beliefs, then speech, persons engaged in the practice, and the practice…

An explanation of the move from using a single continuum to a circle and finally to a quadrangle as a tool for explaining political positions which clarifies their complexity rather than oversimplifying and distorting them. (ND)

Among the topics for which West German youth feel particular concern are the destruction of the natural environment and personal relations, war, high military expenditures, poverty in developing countries, unemployment, problems of minorities, and the deterioration of educational opportunities. Remedies are suggested. (RM)

Teacher educators described how graduates of their programs should respond to each item in an educational beliefs inventory. In their courses, faculty members were more likely to reinforce prevailing beliefs they judged as appropriate than to challenge inappropriate beliefs or encourage students to develop their own informed positions. (JD)

The study measures individual differences in attitude toward student activism on an 18-item Likert type scale. A validity comparison of a known extreme group with a sample from the general student population yielded a significant difference between the means of the groups. Construct validity was evaluated by first testing the differences between…