Symbolic Clothing in Schools

Dress codes and uniform policies have been enforced with great discrepancy in schools. A notable example is the banning of all 'ostentatious' religious symbols in public institutions in France. <br/><br/>Symbolic Clothing in Schools looks to the debate surrounding social political and religious clothing in schools - any piece of dress that significantly forms a part of a person's identity including headscarves veils t-shirt slogans and gang-identifiers. It will be of key interest to those caught up in the debate such as teachers headteachers students and policy makers as well as anyone with a keen interest in how such clothing has been addressed in education policy and practice.<br/><br/>Dianne Gereluk looks to incidents in France England Canada and the United States and provides principles that should assist in setting some general parameters that might be acceptable to all.