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Friedrich, Jasper; Shanks, Rachel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This article asks what uniform practices in schools can tell us about how power functions through a comprehensive analysis of the uniform policies of all Scottish state secondary schools (n = 357). Against the backdrop of large-scale shifts from disciplinary societies to ones dominated by 'neoliberal governmentality' identified by Foucault and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Uniforms, Secondary Schools, Public Schools
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Tess Howard – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a mixed-methods study which investigates the socio-cultural impacts of UK gendered school sport uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female school sport experiences. Drawing on an extensive analytical survey with over 400 women of all-ages and 8 interviews with women aged 18-24, it explores how school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dress Codes, School Uniforms, Secondary School Students
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Watson, Terri Nicol; Miles Nash, Angel – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
Ebony Wright was slated to graduate from Claremont High School in the spring. She was on the honor roll, captain of the girls' varsity softball and swim teams, and recently awarded an academic scholarship to attend a highly ranked university in the fall. Ebony was a "model" student. How she found herself sitting in the principal's office…
Descriptors: School Policy, Dress Codes, Whites, Racial Bias
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Shanks, Rachel; McKinney, Stephen J. – Scottish Educational Review, 2022
Although there are no attendance or registration fees in the UK for publicly funded school education there are hidden costs in attending compulsory education. This article investigates one of the hidden costs: school uniform. We investigate the affordability of school uniform in Scotland, looking at what is required in school uniform policy (class…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Access to Education, School Uniforms, Poverty
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Martin, Jennifer L.; Brooks, Jennifer N. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2020
This article reviews dress code violations that have made national news in the United States and globally that spotlight racist and sexist issues embedded in common K-12 dress codes. It also analyzes all the school dress codes in one county in a Midwestern American state to examine the associated racist and sexist implications. The article ends…
Descriptors: Dress Codes, School Policy, Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination
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Edwards, Torrie K.; Marshall, Catherine – Gender and Education, 2020
Student dress codes are controversial school policy in US schools. As dress codes were initially established with the intent to eliminate the appearance of differences among students and mitigate gang violence in schools, legal research has paid extensive attention to the value and constitutionality of these policies. Education research, however,…
Descriptors: Dress Codes, Public Schools, School Policy, Educational Policy
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
In recent years, researchers, advocates, parents, and students have raised concerns about equity in school dress codes. Concerns have included the detrimental effects of removing students from the classroom for dress code violations. A committee report accompanying H.R. 7614 included a provision for the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Dress Codes, School Safety, Equal Education
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McCulloch, Alistair – Australian Universities' Review, 2018
Despite being a staple of academic life (or perhaps because it is so taken-for-granted), the academic conference has been generally under-utilised as a site for academic research. Using participant observation as its methodology, this article draws on a long career of conference attendance to present two iron laws of conferences which address the…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Conferences (Gatherings), Dress Codes, Writing for Publication
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Küçükakin, Pinar Mercan; Engin-Demir, Cennet – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
The present study analyzes discursive practices that work to construct particular female identities and re/construct gender inequalities in Turkish educational system. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilized to analyze 124 publicly available educational policy documents directly related to gender in education. Additionally, CDA was applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational Policy, Gender Bias
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Hedayati, Nasibeh; Kuusisto, Elina; Gholami, Khalil; Tirri, Kirsi A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This article examines moral dilemmas related to the religion of Islam as identified by Iranian female students. Data was gathered from Iranian lower secondary school students (female n = 175, male n = 165) who wrote about unfair situations they had experienced at school. Students' moral dilemmas were analyzed with deductive content analysis. Moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Issues, Islam, Secondary School Students
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Saltis, Michelle N.; Giancaterino, Brea; Pierce, Corey – Teacher Educator, 2020
The current study reports the process by which one of the largest teacher preparation institutions in the Western U.S. assesses teacher candidates' professional dispositions throughout their teacher preparation programs through the use of a survey developed by the university. The survey is completed by teacher candidates, mentor teachers, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation
Seker, Faruk Salih – Online Submission, 2018
Education starts informally at home and its definition can change person to person. While Tyler defines education as a period of changing one's behavior pattern, Ertürk's explanation is that education is a period of creating intentional desired change in one's behavior by way of own living and Fidan also describes education as a period of managing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Private Schools
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Wilmot, Jennifer M.; Migliarini, Valentina; Ancy Annamma, Subini – Educational Policy, 2021
Black girls' experiences with sexual harassment in schools remain critically understudied. To mediate this void, this study explored the role of educators and school policy as disrupting or perpetuating racialized sexual harassment toward them. Using a disability critical race theory (DisCrit) framework, we argue educator response and education…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, African American Students, Females, Educational Environment
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Caldera, Altheria – Texas Education Review, 2018
In United States school districts, Black girls experience exclusionary punishments at disproportionate rates, mainly because of discriminatory school policies enacted by educators who hold implicit bias. Although in recent years there has been a proliferation of scholarship investigating Black girls' schooling experiences, there is a dearth of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Suspension, Discipline Policy
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Bunyawanich, Sasanun; Järvelä, Maria-Liisa; Ghaffar, Abdul – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
In most countries, wearing uniform in the university level is a rare practice. Interestingly, Thailand is one of a very few countries requiring the undergraduate students to wear the student uniform to attend class on daily basis. The university uniform has been seen to represent the ideas of politeness, honor, unity, and uniqueness of Thai…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Dress Codes
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