This dissertation explores the participation of 160 black mothers in the educational sector to determine if urban mothers who are active participants in their children's schools feel less alienated than mothers who are less active or inactive. Alienation was measured in terms of three components: subjective alienation, the degree of school…

The student teaching process may have features which actually interfere with the processes of learning. Many student teachers revealed in interviews that they went through humiliation, trauma, and disenchantment with teaching in their interactions with cooperating teachers, with other school personnel, and with children in the student teaching…

This report focuses on the nature and forms of student unrest in a sample of schools that make up the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). Although not limited to one type of NAIS school, this study emphasizes boarding schools of the New England and Middle Atlantic States since evidence of student unrest is greater in these schools.…

The Kankakee, Illinois, school district investigated the causes of social conflict in the school district and developed a system of tension monitoring and reduction. Causes of tensions identified by the school district come under the headings institutional, instructional, and personal-interaction. The school's program for tension reduction, once…

The objective of this research was to examine the dimensions of role conflict and the mode of deviant adaptation among teachers in schools attempting to meet their goal of improvement. Relationships were found between teachers experiencing high role conflict and deviant modes of adaptation and the goal-attaining process. Teachers in schools…

The present study was undertaken to clarify the relationship between 2 expressions of alienation, described as psychological alienation and activist political alienation, and to learn something of the characteristics of students who manifest these different expressions. Four general types of students are found in evidence. The first type are the…

Attacks on academic tenure are examined in light of current concerns about higher education in general and with respect to a predicted rise in faculty age in a period of reduced expansion. Two charges against tenure, nonresponsiveness and sloth, are selected because of the existence of empirocal evidence. Research studies on (1) faculty openness…

After a review of the student protests of the past, it is predicted that: (1) student activism will continue to be a fact to reckon with; (2) visceral unrest will on occasion emerge but, in the U.S. at least, will seldom express itself violently; (3) student criticism of educational practices will be increasingly recognized as a valuable resource…

Examines adolescents' attitudes toward the sociopolitical system and violence directed at the system as well as the implications of these attitudes for the social studies curriculum. (IRT)

Surveyed 209 adults over age 50 regarding use of mass media for fashion information. Results showed an inverse relationship between frequency of use of mass media for fashion information and fashion alienation. Frustration was expressed with regard to finding suitable clothes in stores and keeping up with fashion changes. (JAC)

Trend data associated with increasing alienation and a decrease in coping skills among youth point to symptoms of inadequate socialization of young people to adulthood. Remedies that increase the variety and intensity of adult contacts for youth should be considered. Such changes would likely have important implications for community college…

Author believes that each school has a pattern of student misconduct followed year after year. He suggests that appropriate curriculum during peak periods of student restlessness could produce better results. (GB)

Author feels that a national that can send men to the moon should be able to rid itself of social unrest. (HS)

The modern novel served as a primary source of social data. The fictionalized perspective, more than any other drew the authors to conclude that teachers, most especially college professors, experience an acute sense of alienation. (Authors/CB)

The results support Gould's (1969) contention that alienation has important psychological, in addition to sociological, correlates. (Author)