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Publication Date: 1998
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Celebrating Connectedness.
Maslen, Robin
Education in Rural Australia, v8 n1 p1-9 1998
People's lack of connectedness and increasing alienation, dubbed the "epidemic of insecurity," have unhealthy impacts on society, and create some special problems for males. Cites research findings that closeness and pleasure, especially during child-rearing, promote nonharmful behaviors, and discusses parental, educational, and institutional strategies that promote closeness. (TD)
Descriptors: Alienation, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Elementary Secondary Education, Fathers, Futures (of Society), High Risk Students, Human Relations, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy, Males, Parent Role, School Role, Security (Psychology), Social Problems, Sociocultural Patterns, Sociology, Violence
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Language: English
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Note: Keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (Adelaide, Australia, 1997).
