Teacher differences in South America, Europe, and Africa are examined. Under consideration are teacher education, professional identity, and salaries. (DE)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 58 1969).

The original article, from which the editor presents excerpts, appeared in the Spring 1968 number of the University, a Princeton quarterly.

Research has found that elderly widows are alienated, disengaged, and depressed. However, there is little consensus across theories as to the inter-relationship of these variables. The social interactionist theory that disengagement leads to chronic depression and alienation was tested for a group of widows (N=32) and married women (N=28) over the…

Factors influencing school performance of alienated minority youth are examined, preventive approaches discussed, and results of a survey of 165 preservice and inservice teachers and other educational personnel regarding student alienation are presented. Contributing factors to adjustment problems are traced to environmental influences,…

Both the forms and the content of current classroom practice fit into a generally repressive socialization pattern for students. The formal constituents of typical classroom practice in American higher education include grades, tests, grade distribution, syllabi and schedules, all of which contribute to a generally repressive socialization pattern…

This study is concerned with adolescents' response levels on seven measures of political alienation: powerlessness, discontentment, cynicism, detachment, hopelessness, elitism, and democratic deficiency. Using a random sample of 269 Hartford, Connecticut high school students surveyed in May 1976, political alienation levels are found to be…

Today's student differs from his counterpart of the 1950's in character, aspiration, experience, and educational and family background. Generally more independent and mature, the students of the 1960's tend to involve themselves in any of 5 subcultures as a means of expressing their concern about a number of issues. The sorority or fraternity…

The purpose of this study was to test House's and Mason's hypothesis (1975) that only a weak relationship exists between political alienation and traditional demographic definitions of social position. Such demographic variables include age, sex, socioeconomic status, length of residency in the community, and occupational prestige. Data was…

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the following questions: (1) Do students who participate in disruptive activities obtain scores on Dean's Alienation Scale that are significantly different from those of students who were not participants? (2) Do students who participate in disruptive activities obtain scores on Gurin's…