This report has been prepared to increase the general awareness of how serious a problem corporal punishment can be and also to contribute some possible corrective steps. The document consists of (1) a summary of the current situation, (2) specific civil liberties considerations, (3) harmful effects, (4) illustrative case reports, (5) recent court…

This analysis of Malaysian secondary schools indicates that the observed high levels of student alienation and distrust within the heterogeneous schools are due to a complex interaction effect between certain internal features and the way they are perceived to be linked to the adult occupational structure. (Author/AM)

Discusses the psychological attitudes held by different French-speaking black authors. (Author/AM)

Intellectual heresy on the part of university students is a normal and desirable phenomenon, for it will mellow into a hopefully sensitive "hyprocricy" as the students age, and be replaced in its turn by a new, inquisitive, and innovative heresy of succeeding college generations. (MB)

Offers a discussion of and suggests activities for an eight-week elective course on the themes of alienation and love in adolescent literature. (HOD)

The principal plays a key role in both teacher burnout and teacher stress, as both a major source of support and the major source of stress. Provides an inventory for evaluating teacher stress levels. Identifies seven important teacher supports, and includes suggestions for providing teacher support by principals. (MD)

James Baldwin's special sense of his blackness enables him to combine Walt Whitman's awareness of urban wandering and Henry James' self-conscious cosmopolitanism in his books, particularly "Go Tell It on the Mountain." (BJV)

Investigated relationship among locus of control, mental ability, self-esteem, and alienation among 50 undergraduates. Results suggest that alienation is related to external locus of control and low self-esteem. No significant association was found for mental ability and alienation. (Author/NB)

The article summarizes procedures in the development of a valid and reliable instrument for measuring three social components of alienation (isolation, powerlessness, and normlessness) in 10- to 14-year-olds and discusses the instrument's practical applications for school and community health educators, parents, and other professionals who…

This study of 2,300 secondary school administrators in the U.S. Office of Education (District VI) suggests that assistant principals are more powerless and have a higher level of alienation than do principals. Moreover, promotion to principal is no longer ensured, as assistant principals are routinely assigned to student discipline and other…

Among Arab students in Israel, alienation is more closely related to their perceptions than to objective measures. Arab students, teachers, and principals from 36 schools were interviewed. The following four factors were used to measure alienation: (1) powerlessness, (2) meaninglessness, (3) misfeasance, and (4) self-estrangement. (LHW)

Evaluated the effects of involvement of adolescents in community service activities on levels of alienation in 50 ninth graders. It is suggested that adolescent involvement in service activities can produce positive benefits, including reduced levels of alienation, improved school behavior, improved grade point average, and acceptance by the adult…

Describes 10 units in a course on "film noir," a cinema that tells stories of alienation linked to issues of social and sexual power. Includes units on visual and narrative style, space, classic detective tradition, and emotional solitude.(PD)

A study of self-reported drug use by 433 undergraduates revealed significant differences between current and former users. Former users are less alienated, less likely to endorse drug use wholeheartedly, and less likely to condemn the law and legal institutions. Nonetheless, the attitudes of former users are closer to current users' than…