School Uniforms: New Materialist Perspectives (1st ed. 2023) (The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education)

By: Rachel Shanks and Julie Ovington and Beth Cross and Ainsley Carnarvon

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Synopsis: This edited volume brings together a new materialist approach to understanding the various legacies and controls being exercised through school uniforms. Through examining school uniform policies, the editors and their authors highlight the embodied choices that contribute to a socio-materialist understanding of democracy and social justice. Uniform policy plays a distinct role in setting the culture of compulsory school education and as such it constitutes a set of under-theorised school practices. This work thus brings together critical perspectives from education, sociology, cultural and postcolonial studies within an overarching analysis of how uniform imposes performances that have a formative effect on young people’s identities and economic positionality.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031329395
Related ISBNs:: 9783031329388
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 08/19/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Rachel Shanks
Edited by:: Julie Ovington
Edited by:: Beth Cross
Edited by:: Ainsley Carnarvon