Colin Symes
Queensland University of Technology
6 Papers
103 Citations
Colin Symes is an academic researcher from Queensland University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
The Genealogy of the School: an iconography of badges and mottoes
John Synott,Colin Symes +1 more
TL;DR: The authors conducted an analysis of the practices associated with school uniform, badges and mottoes, drawn from a sample of over 500 schools in the state of Queensland, Australia, and revealed a large degree of uniformity in the meaning content of these school icons, derived from a common core of educational values established during the formative decades of universal school.
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Of Uniform Appearance: a symbol of school discipline and governmentality
Daphne Meadmore,Colin Symes +1 more
TL;DR: The very garments that in some places are given them (children), and their maintenance in all of them by charity, are the constant badges and proofs of their dependence and poverty; and should therefore teach them humility and their parents thankfulness as mentioned in this paper.
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Keeping Up Appearances: Uniform Policy for School Diversity?
Daphne Meadmore,Colin Symes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse policies pertaining to school dress codes which have been formulated recently by all state education bureaucracies in Australia and examine these policies and their implementation in the context of devolution, the marketisation of schools, and cognate social legislation.
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A post‐fordist reworking of Australian education: the Finn, Mayer and Carmichael reports in the context of labour reprocessing
TL;DR: In fact, the new nexus which is now being forged between school and work is post-Fordist in character as discussed by the authors, unlike its manifestations in the past, which contained Fordist and Taylorist elements.
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The Extra-Ordinary School Parergonality & Pedagogy
Colin Symes,Daphne Meadmore +1 more
- 01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: Seymes and Meadmore as mentioned in this paper discuss Parergonality and pedagogy of school vestibules and the Semiotics of school Vestibules, as well as the need for a regular government to guarantee a regular Government: The Prefect and the Contemporary School.
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