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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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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