The editorial compares the realities of teachers' frustrations and anxieties with popular conceptions of teachers as superhuman authority figures. (GW)

Explores graduate students' sociological perspective, explains barriers encountered in developing that perspective, and describes strategies employed to create a participatory educational environment. Concludes that students' alienation decreased as participation increased in sociological community. (Author/DH)

Thirty-five teachers were interviewed and 100 surveyed by questionnaire to examine their views of the teaching career and its setting and to define a framework from which to view the problem of occupational fatigue and effects of intervention. Alienation theory seems to provide such a framework. (Author/MT)

Studied the effects of relocation on the psychosocial status of institutionalized patients. Found that among certain subgroups of patients, relocation resulted in significant decreases in depression, alienation and distress, and in an improvement in self-concept for all patients regardless of age, sex, or race. (Author/NRB)

Tested six hypotheses concerning the effects of need level (higher versus lower order) and need salience as moderators of the relationship between need satisfaction and alienation-involvement in employees (N=632). Results showed that higher-order need satisfaction correlated with alienation-involvement, and need saliency did not moderate the need…

Since alienation was so very strongly related to racial solidarity responses in education, even for the more educated blacks, any expansion in feelings of hopelessness and despair in the black community could have significant implications for the future of black education. (Authors)

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)