Shielding the learned body

A semiotic analysis of school badges in New South Wales, Australia

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ID4473669
AuthorsColin Symes (0000-0002-9748-7446, Sydney , Australia, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume2023
Issue250
Pages167-190
Publication date2023-03-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2021-0160
OpenAlexW4316040390
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

School badges, though an integral part of education's "aesthetic order," of its signage and apparel, have not been the subjects of much of analysis. In addressing this oversight, the following paper examines the badges of New South Wales government schools and argues that like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, they draw on heraldic models and are constructs of colors, names, motifs, and mottoes that in various ways have local cogency and significance. For example, many badges draw on Australia's flora and fauna or refer to aspects of its colonial history and thereby induct pupils into the nation's identity. Some schools, under the pressure to be more business-oriented, have turned their back on the traditional badge in favor of logos and slogans that, arguably, are more commensurate with their times

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Clothing · Colonialism · Government (linguistics) · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Logos Bible Software · Media studies · Order (exchange) · Political science · Semiotics · Signage · Sociology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy

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