Investigates the attribution of success and failure in five naturally occurring clusters of 7th-grade students (N=217): Popular Insiders, Ambitious Insiders, Outsiders, Alienated Disengaged, and Invisible Students. Discusses the achievement attributions of each cluster and argues that school counselors need to understand achievement-related…

Argues that the McCarthy era, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam War all provided stimuli that shook up national identity and made belonging in this society questionable: unfortunately, the vast majority of those who had been shaken up found ersatz belonging--few became politically conscious. (Author/JM)

The author attempts to analyze the educational climate of the classroom as a function of teacher behavior. (AN)

Studies conducted between 1956 and 1966 indicate that what students learn in college is determined by an interaction of individuality and norms common to peer groups, and that identification of individual characteristics leads to the discovery of student subcultures. An important developmental stage during late adolescence is the consolidation of…

The results of this study tend to validate the Clark-Trow model as a meaningful instrument in studying college student subcultures. Perhaps the most significant outcome of the study was that the college subcultures described by Clark and Trow are discernible at the time when students originally matriculate in college. (Author)

Although "flaming" (language and behavior considered outrageous in a classroom context) is a rupture of teacher authority, it can be used in the classroom as a viable pedagogical tool. A student in a basic literature course read a long and sexually explicit narrative in rhymed couplets. The rupture in the normal classroom environment…

Recently drinking-related deaths on college campuses have received wide media attention, prompting administrators to explore new ways of dealing with this problem. This study, conducted at Manhattan College (New York), focuses on exploring student perceptions about appropriate drinking behavior. Information was collected from a sample population…

A view of the high school as ecosystem, with implications for the assessment of behavior in the high school culture." (Author/SP)

Few empirical studies have examined student resistance and counterculture. This paper presents findings of a study that investigated the subjective experience of high school students to understand student resistance to the formal culture of schools. The research used a conceptual framework based on the anthropological concepts of "ritual" and…

Higher education and its impact during times of societal changes is addressed within the context of studying student behavior and the institution's adaptation to new social issues. To help do this, an institution of higher education needs an assessment of the socio-psychological makeup of university students, their personalities, their…

A teacher survey was conducted in order to collect information on the cultural background of French-speaking Acadian ("Cajun") students in Louisiana and its possible effects on their school achievement. Teachers in selected predominantly Cajun communities were asked to respond to questions which covered: learning style, language, and…

Schoolyard bullying, a pervasive and significant problem, tends to lead to anti-social behavior in the adult/parental years as well, perpetuating the pattern of violence in a new generation of students. Bullies, and often their victims, tend to operate at a unilateral, or one-way, attitudinal level instead of a reciprocal or collaborative level.…

Resistance theory draws attention to the existence of conflict and antagonism in schools and in pupils' resistance to schools' authority and ideology. In "Learning to Labor," Paul Willis unduly romanticizes resistant practices by the subjects of his ethnography. An alternative view of resistance permits a more socially and historically…