Discusses the difficulties associated with maintaining the absolutely essential flow of independent and socially aware minds into science, especially those created by the tendencies to scientism in existing science.'' (Author/AL)

A drug survey found higher drug usage among males, blacks, eighth graders, children from broken homes, and children who do not plan to complete high school. It is suggested that these adolescents are enmeshed in an alienation syndrome'' and need a variety of services for prevention and rehabilitation. (Author)

Author evaluates the radical student movement as a failure. (HS)

The author interprets student dissent as a return to the Protestant ethic. Students talk of the collective experience, the common bonds of humanity, the need for communication. Much of this has the spirit of the original ethic. (Author)

The author examines the question of whether or not it is possible to humanize education through technology. (AK)

Two theoretical arguments are posed concerning the effects of formal Western education in producing a sense of alienation among individuals in traditional, non-Western societies. The value-conflict thesis leads to the hypothesis that education and alienation are positively associated. The goal frustration thesis suggests that education and…

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

Changes in the American family, institutional changes, and mobility have been instrumental in fostering uncaring attitudes. Often, however, it is not clear if the American people have become uncaring or if they care in a different and possibly more effective way. (RM)

The study related the role of the maternal figure to the affective behavior of the Mexican. Two hundred adolescents judged the concept of "Insult to the Mother" in relation to other similarly charged affective concepts, e.g., "death", "suicide", "drunkenness", etc. Results showed that "Insult to the…

Discusses literature on student disengagement in school and efforts to improve student engagement in learning. Includes list of standards for engaged learning. (PKP)

Notes that African American literature has always had science fiction elements in its focus on narratives of the alienated and marginalized "other." Contends that Octavia Butler and Virginia Hamilton are two African American writers of science fiction who examine the connections between the stories of a culture and the genre of science…

Describes author's personal experience as young counselor-in-training with racially mixed (Black and Indian) 11-year-old boy who experienced rejection by his Indian mother, Whites, and Blacks and the effects this experience had on author's own professional growth and development. Expresses author's frustration at destructive results family and…

Presents assessment strategies, preventive methods, and clinical interventions to assist clinicians working with teenagers involved with deviant subcultures: Satanism, the neo-Nazi skinhead movement, and violent street gangs. Considers role of alienation as contributing factor in adolescents' participation in these subcultures. Advises therapists…