This document contains a bakers dozen of what the author calls "dirty" lessons, because they reveal some unpleasant surprises about academic life--surprises that institutions usually fail to mention to faculty candidates when they court them for their first job. The author hopes that one day some young faculty member will discover this list of…

Although recent government initiatives have drawn attention to the importance of listening to young people, attempts to pay attention to their views about their education experience are rare. Drawing on two studies of disaffected and disadvantaged pupils, this article analyses what can be learned from taking their views into account.

This paper explores the use of Peter Berger's theory of religion and its features of alienation and dealienation to lead students to the critical awareness of the role that human beings play in the construction of social worlds, including most especially our religious worlds. After summarizing Berger's theory of the alienating and potentially…

Answers and rebuts an article by Larry Johannessen (in the same issue of the journal) that offers ways for teachers to deal with and help alienated remedial students. Addresses the issues of administrative help, the effect of the interests and enthusiasm of the teacher, and the inner resources of teachers in despair. (PRA)

Several constraints influence the formation of a professional identity by full-time distance education faculty at the University of the Philippines. One of these is the marginalisation of distance education (DE) in the academy as a consequence of DE's identification with low status disciplines, as well as with developments in higher education that…

This study uses a sequential transformative mixed methods research design to explain how political advertising fails to engage college students. Qualitative focus groups examined how college students interpret the value of political advertising to them, and a quantitative manifest content analysis concerning ad framing of more than 100 ads from…

Both spatial theories of voting and our intuitions lead us to expect that political parties' ideological positions should affect individuals' turnout decisions. Contrary to these expectations, existing research finds that neither feelings of alienation--that no party adequately represents an individual's ideological position--nor…

In response to several major curriculum reforms in Hong Kong since 2000, schools were required to initiate policies that catered for learner diversity. As well academic achievement, the reforms also emphasized the affective and social outcomes of the learning experience. A whole-school approach to learner diversity includes students with low…

This paper is an abbreviated phenomenology of understanding accompanied by some very general suggestions as to how pedagogy is related to a grasp of the essential features of understanding. (Editor)

This study examines alienation in two different cultural groups. Students from Middle Eastern or transitional societies expressed greater feelings of alienation than American students. In the case of students in both cultures from professional backgrounds the results were reversed. The results of the study are discussed in terms of cultural…

Alienation, defined as an objective state of isolation from others, is studied among 335 members of five organizations. Four dimensions of isolation are studied: isolation from formal authority, from the network of perceived actual control, from friends, and from highly respected coworkers. (Author)

Paper presented at the Western Regional Assembly of the College Scholarship Service.

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

This paper presents some impressions gained after 4 weeks of intensive discussion with about 130 graduating seniors on 5 college campuses in major Midwestern and Eastern urban centers. The student who is totally committed to the American Dream is increasingly rare. Students have realized that the end is here and now, the future and the present are…