This article explores the figured world of learning at urban Oakcity High School, describing the learner identities that were available to students amid the practices, categories, discourses and interactions of this world. My aims are 2-fold and interconnected: (1) to reframe a taken-for-granted phenomenon--that students tend to do poorly at urban…

Bullying, perhaps the most underrated problem in America's schools today, distracts minds and inhibits the learning process; if left unchecked, it can destroy lives and place society at risk. Bullying is defined as one or more individuals inflicting physical, verbal, or emotional abuse upon another individual or individuals. Subliminal abuses…

The argument is presented for conceiving collegiate scholars to be a distinct student subculture on the college campus, one which epitomizes elite values and traditions with their emphasis on education for future leadership. (Author/KM)

This paper discusses the processes that determine the characteristics of professional sub-cultures. It was postulated that mechanisms of attraction, formal and informal selection, promotion and reinforcement of desired characteristics serve to shape the personality which characterizes the members of a profession and can be expected to result in a…

In this study, freshmen who appointed themselves to each of the four Clark-Trow subgroups (vocational, academic, collegiate, and nonconformist) are compared with a freshman class distribution five years earlier. Reliability of the model is affirmed, and evidence of its validity is provided. (Author)

Author theorizes about current and coming change in the nature of mass higher education'' in view of the activism of the 1960s. (Editor/MB)

Suggestions on incorporating children's chants, games, riddles, and songs into the language arts program. (SP)

Author explains the significance of a survey of student language, and gives a sample Checklist of School Language". (SP)

Unrest in universities and secondary schools is seldom viewed as a matter of direct concern of the elementary schools. Yet no other institution, with the possible exception of the family, has a greater potential for positively (or negatively) affecting the lives of the young. (CK)

Use of Holland's personality types proposed in his theory of vocational choice (1966) and the Clark-Trow Typology of College Student Subcultures indicates general agreement with literature findings - that relationship does exist between student characteristics and types of college environment. Results have implications for design of programs to…

Last spring, at the height of the frenzy over accusations that three Duke University men's lacrosse players had gang raped a Black exotic dancer during a party, faculty from Duke's African and African American studies department chose to take a stand. With emotions running high, the faculty took out a full-page advertisement in student newspaper,…

Attempts to show that the protests of the 1960's are evidence of a disjunction between the perceived role of young as adults and the actual role relegated them by society. Removing this disjunction causes a rapid decline in protest. (Author)

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 3, 1968.