Examines relationships between job characteristics, alienation from work, and work-related behavior for professional-level technical and managerial employees of a manufacturing firm. Results indicate no significant relationships between the nature of jobs and experienced work alienation. However, a pattern of relationships exists between…

Believes that social educators must respond to alienation in society that is the cause of disconnections among people when trying to build a stronger democracy. Examines the idea of alienation within society and addresses how social educators can keep their values as they teach. (CMK)

Describes a parent-volunteer student-support program (Time-In) for lonely and isolated students at Bret Harte Middle School, a 2001-2002 Blue Ribbon school in the San Jose (California) Unified School District. (PKP)

Describes how a teacher energizes his teaching by participating in a writing group consisting of three other English teachers from another school district. Discusses how participation in the writing group counters the alienation of the classroom. (RS)

Examined attitudes of ambivalence and hostility toward children by drawing on a random sample of 600 couples in the early years of marriage. Based on a scale that measured perceived advantages and disadvantages of children, results showed that several alienation variables were associated with negative attitudes toward children, while several…

Argues that, in practice, teaching is not restricted to technical views of child development produced by Piagetian theories, but draws upon a complex analogical network of experience-based images of childhood. Recognizes children as persons with a potent presence in adult lives, rather than as a univocal object demain for scientific study. (DMM)

In the push for excellence in education, administrators may forget that dissatisfied teachers may weaken the educational program. Basic public relations principles and techniques can help administrators meet teachers' needs. (Author/TE)

Notes that Grandparent's Day is becoming a nationally recognized holiday celebrated by more and more schools, but that such celebrations can alienate students whose grandparents have died or whose families do not have good relations with the grandparents. Presents an activity to engage students who may be in these situations. (JW)

Current discipline and motivation problems in our schools are indicative of students' rejection of an education irrelevant to their lives and worthless in terms of future employment. Educators must abandon their determination to maintain a competitive and hierarchical educational treadmill and encourage the young to begin an exploration of the…

Outlines some ways in which teachers can maintain a sense of self in a negative and distrusting environment. Teachers should (1) know themselves; (2) follow their values; (3) maintain an internal locus of control; (4) talk to themselves; and (5) surround themselves with others who have similar feelings. (MDM)

Discusses common and critical global problems related to children who are at risk. Section on academic failure examines programs for preschool children, education for disadvantaged children at the elementary school level, and an ecological approach to the problem. Other sections explore issues of youth alienation, the future of the human species,…

Observes that teaching today is a major challenge as teachers attempt to sift through everything that confronts them and as they constantly struggle with conflict while trying to address the complex dilemmas facing them daily in their classrooms. (SR)

Further education colleges in England offer a wide range of post-school education and training provision. Recently they have undergone major transformations that have resulted in considerable changes to the work of those teaching in them. In this paper we examine how cultures of learning and teaching in colleges are affected and how the nature of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between attachment to parents and psychological separation in college students. Three hundred sixty-eight undergraduate students completed the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) and the Psychological Separation Inventory (Hoffman, 1984). Results…

In this paper, we explore greening initiatives in school grounds as sites where ecological, pedagogical, and social transformation might be promoted and take place. Reflecting on our evaluations of school ground greening initiatives in Canada and England, we note that these initiatives are often at the margins of young peoples' experiences in…