Homogeneous grouping in general education has systematically alienated the less affluent, the less motivated, the less academically able student, and developed distinct anti-intellectualism. This was poor preparation for the complex political, social, and moral questions which plague society today. (Author/SE)

Portrays the crucial problems related to the time and work demands made on teachers and describes the hierarchical patterning of authority. (Author)

The increasing number of campus conflicts brought to court may have far-reaching implications and could mean a decline of academic freedom in the future. (IR)

The academic, believing himself appointed to reshape society, now finds society has no wish to be reshaped and regards him as one cause of social distress. (Editor/IR)

Discusses social problems and concerns which cause student alienation and activism. Stresses that task of education is to reformulate the problems and seek solutions through increased respect for personal differences and pattern of social arrangements that allows widest expression of varied constructive potentials of man. (Author/NS)

Alienation was measured by Alienation Scale of Neal and Rettig (1963), vocational maturity by Vocational Development Inventory (Crites, 1961), and scholastic ability by Cooperative School and College Ability Test. No significant relationship between variables was found, suggesting that the Alienation Scale is not suitable for this purpose.…

Explains the need for a student-centered curriculum. (SW)

Article based on a lecture given before a student symposium at the University of Hawaii, Spring, 1969.

Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.

Respondents in a 1969 survey (n=400) of undergraduate men at the University of Michigan were resurveyed as alumni in 1979 (n=215). Former activists were disproportionately employed in human services areas of government and had shifted their main involvement from national to community affairs. (Author/PN)

Teachers and parents need to regain some of their lost authority and help youth contribute to society, not just borrow from it. (Author)

Transactional analysis offers explanation of alienation, causes and treatments. Messages we receive and attitudes we form about ourselves in childhood become primitive beliefs and life scripts. Alienated students develop one of four major life scripts, each requiring a different classroom intervention strategy to counterscript. (NRB)

This study began as an examination of the amount and scope of economics information taught in three high school history classes. Results revealed that the teachers' inflexible control of information caused students to become alienated from the classroom activities and cynical about the validity of any information conveyed there. (AM)