School Surveillance, Control, and Resistance in the United Kingdom

Carlile, Anna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71559-9_2

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“…The school uniform policies we have analysed in detail here, have gone beyond ensuring conformity, and have implied that to be employable young people must adhere to a strict uniform policy. As Craik (2003) and Carlile (2018) have stated, the implication is that young people’s inner selves are being controlled. To avoid the attention of teachers or because the policy discourse has been normalised, young people could be internalising the uniform rules (Meadmore and Symes 1996).…”

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“…This highlights how such policies are often infused with assumptions and status quo-maintaining beliefs of what is considered morally correct, and that what pupils wear sets examples for appropriate conduct (Craik, 2003; Pomerantz, 2007). School uniform, thus, can be understood as a ‘a way to control, cloak, or restrict the extended body’ (Carlile, 2018: p.25). Furthermore, it has been argued that by associating the school uniform, which is traditionally masculine, with professionalism, masculinity is conflated with being professional (Edwards and Marshall, 2020).…”

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Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze

Olsson

Shanks

2022

Childhood

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This article examines employability discourse within school uniform policies as a way to justify uniform. The uniform policy of every publicly funded secondary school in Scotland ( n = 357) was studied using content and discourse analysis. Employability discourse was grouped into three themes: School as preparation for work; school to replicate a work environment; and young people creating a good impression for employers. The rationale of the uniform is revealed as a technology through which the employer’s gaze is projected onto pupils.

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Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze

Olsson

Shanks

2022

Childhood

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Stakeholders’ attitudes towards the installations of closed-circuit television cameras in reducing school violence

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Phan³

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‘The prison of the body’: school uniforms between discipline and governmentality

Friedrich

Shanks

2021

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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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 others, we investigate how these modes of power seem to be entangled in school uniform policies. The analysis reveals the specification of detailed uniform policies that both homogenise, divide and hierarchise the school body, suggesting that disciplinary techniques are alive and well. However, in the justifications that schools provide, we see uniform policies framed not as a tool to enforce discipline, but rather as a technique for pupils to fashion themselves into respectable and employable future adults. We suggest the rise of a 'neoliberal governmentality' has shaped how schools justify their practices of control more than it has shaped the practices themselves.

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School Surveillance, Control, and Resistance in the United Kingdom

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze

Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze

Stakeholders’ attitudes towards the installations of closed-circuit television cameras in reducing school violence

‘The prison of the body’: school uniforms between discipline and governmentality

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