College students' responses to Rotter's scale were factor analyzed, and smokers' exsmokers', and nonsmokers' factor scores were compared. The findings suggest the usefulness of the concepts of "alienation" and "alienation from one's body" in understanding life-threatening behaviors. (Author)

Some of the implications of the failure of graduate schools to help students find constructive solutions to societal problems are considered. This issue is seen as a crucial one since graduate students are not only teaching assistants, with a major share of the burden of undergraduate education, but become university professors and secondary…

This paper examines a large undergraduate teacher education program which had as a major goal allaying students' feelings of depersonalization and alienation. Specifically looked at are: (1) processes leading to a sense of community, responsibility, and influence among students and staff and (2) processes countering such development. (Author/MT)

Examined perceived prejudice, self-concept, and alienation in 63 Japanese-American and 44 Chinese-American college students. Found no significant correlations for Chinese-Americans between perceived prejudice and self-concept; Japanese-Americans showed a significant, negative relationship between prejudice and self-concept. Chinese-Americans had…

Parents must work actively with teachers to encourage the social integration of disabled children in mainstream classrooms. The ability to initiate and maintain positive peer relationships is necessary for healthy cognitive and social growth in all children, and it helps the disabled helps to overcome destructive cycles of rejection and isolation.…

A study of maladjusted, under-reacting children in England as they made the transition from junior high to secondary school and during the following four years showed that the maladjusted group made a more satisfactory adjustment than was anticipated. However, the children continued to be more unsettled than their adjusted counterparts. (Author/RM)

Mathophobia is an irrational and impeditive dread of mathematics. For any of a variety of reasons a student can develop this emotional and intellectual block, making further progress in mathematics and closely related fields very difficult. (Author)

Article lists nine objectives to aid in helping students with drug problems, and points out the priorities of the entire situation. (GB)

Students and their parents completed a questionnaire dealing with attitudes toward five topics: student unrest, drugs, marriage, work, and sexual behavior. A gap does exist in three of the areas: student unrest, drugs, and sexual behavior. (Author)

Some student demonstrations and rioting were probably a revolt against form, rather than for reform. (Ed./HS)

An examination of alternative schools, in particular, the English curriculum. While acknowledging the value of such schools' autonomy, diversity, and creativity, the author points out serious flaws in the unconsidered practical application of current progressive" educational philosophies. (JB)

Author uses the term hidden curriculum" to refer to the structure of schooling as opposed to what happens in school in the same way that linguists distinguish between the structure of a language and the use which the speaker makes of it. (Author/MB)