Children’s right to freedom of expression in the context of students’ appearance. A comparative study of Poland and the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11920490 |
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| Authors | Anna Babicka-Wirkus (0000-0002-1292-7351, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057925.2023.2251882 |
| OpenAlex | W4386416341 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
The article concerns the issue of school regulations of students’ appearance in the context of violating children’s right to freedom of expression. The analysis of documents from 30 schools (18 schools in the United Kingdom and 12 schools in Poland) shows areas of control over students’ appearance and bodies, which, in turn, is intended to lead to their homogenisation and shaping into conformist citizens. The analysis showed that the students’ appearance is controlled both in Polish as well as UK schools, and both in those schools which require uniforms as well as those which do not. Most of the regulations relate to girls’ appearance, making their bodies subject to a greater number of mandates and prohibitions than boys’ bodies. Under the guise of the politics of neutrality and safety in schools, regulations of students’ appearance create inequalities and generate fictional threats.KEYWORDS: Children’s rightsfreedom of expressionstudents’ appearancePolandUnited Kingdom Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. In 2007, the Act on the Education system reintroduced school uniforms into primary and secondary schools, but an amendment published already the following year rescinded this requirement. It is worth noting that this period was characterised by significant variability regarding school uniforms. Some school principals considered a vest or a shirt of a given colour as equivalent to a uniform
Conformist · Context (archaeology · Kingdom · Neutrality · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Preparatory school · Primary education · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights
Unbearable Weight
Life in Schools
On Critical Pedagogy
Discipline and Punish
Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
Polite, Well-dressed and on Time
What is Resistance
Do School Uniforms Lead to Uniform Minds
Undressing policy
How do people radicalize
School uniform policy’s adverse impact on equity and access to schooling
Keeping Up Appearances
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
The prison of the body
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Tank Tops Are Ok but I Don't Want to See Her Thong
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