Two major forms of contemporary student alienation are identified: a retreatist passive form termed psychological alienation,'' and an active radical form termed active political alienation.'' (Author)

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)

In an attempt to determine the nature of sex role differences as perceived by teachers, a study of 69 secondary school teachers was conducted. The results revealed teacher perceptions of traditional male-female student behavior in the classroom, teacher preference for male teachers and students and teacher reluctance to change. (Authors)

The tragicomic experiences of Wordsworth, Coleridge and their fellow romantics are seen as foreshadowing the agonies of contemporary youth. (Editor)

Discussion of reasons behind student protest and suggestions for coping with these problems. Condensed from "American Education, V (October 1969), p. 4-5. (AP)

"Are we as a profession reaching out - enough - to these young people who want a revolution without knowing enough to write their manifesto for it? Cannot we help them better, we who lock the doors every night on man's social memory? (Author)

In line with earlier findings pertaining to student activists, legitimation of activism in this study was found to be associated with: (1) location in academic rather than vocational curricula; (2) being highly secular or non-religious; (3) educational goals not oriented to income or status; and, (4) reference group salience of peers over parents.…

A study of student-faculty-administration relationships at berkeley. (HS)

Drug use and abuse are viewed as symptomatic of more basic and underlying problems. Drug usage indicates the degree of alienation felt by young people. With drugs, the user finds a way of escaping. There must be an emphasis on self reliance and the courage to be imperfect and not live by the curse of perfection. (Author)

Seeks to study the relationship between student control and student alienation in high schools by evaluating the attitudes of the schools and students to each other. (AN)