Uniform

Uniforms are a big part of schooling in the UK. Each child has to wear the coloured uniform for their school. Be it Primary school or Secondary school. The uniform indentifies that child with that school. Each schools uniform is very different and one of the first things i think of when i think of school and education. I think this is because most children hate wearing a uniform.
These are some iamges i have collected of different school uniforms:

These are children in primary school. The girls often have skirts, or summer dresses. The uniform also contains the schools logo/badge. The girls wearing ankle socks, and these children have blazers or jumpers with their school colour.

These are some older children in secondary school. Their skirts are often shorts, no dresses, knee high socks, and blazers. Often ties aswell containing their school colours. I think the shirt and tie is a more formal look, but children dont often like it.

Cheerleading

A popular activity for girls, espeically girls in high school. This is a very American thing. This is also a recurring image that relates to schools and education. Although known by its uniform, the uniform can come in many different colours. The colours relate to the team they are cheering for. The girls often cheer for their schools basketball team.
These are some different images of cheerleading and cheerleading stunts:

This image is from a cheerleading competition. The girls are making a cheer pyramid.

These are some silhoutettes of different cheer poses. This could become quite interesting if developed?

Basketball

A popular American sport for boys which seems to keep reccuring in these youth culture programmes. It is also identified by its uniform. These are some images relating to basketball.

Still images taken during a game.

Close-up of a basketball. P.E a big part of primary and some of secondary school life.

A core subject until year 9 like English, Maths, Science.

Programmes related to school or youth culture.

Grange Hill.

A popular childrens programme that has been around for many generations. Relating to all issues at sceondary school. The different series shoes how youth culture has changed and developed over the years.
These are images i found from different series of Grange Hill and different scenes.

These images show the different uniforms the school has had and how the childrens how chosen to wear it.

Skins.

A teenage late night programme that has been a hit with series 5. All about the modern youth culture, school, drugs, sex and violence. It's a real up close and personal programme following these different characters around their school/college seeing the things they get up to in and out of school hours and also how they behave.

These images show the different parties, and the environment these college kids get up too and live in. 

 High School Musical

Once started on the Disney channel, which became such a hit with young children it was turned into a bigger movie, which was so successful there is now 3. This shows an American view on children in high school (secondary). The movies are aimed at a younger audience and therefore much cleaner, the children are very well behaved, do well at school, and take part in school activites such as basketball (a big Amercian sport) and cheerleading. These images are very different to the others seen above.

Although these movies are aimed at a younger audience than say skins, the images given off by the kids in the movie is very different. The boys play basketball, and when naughty they are punished for it, the girls sing and dance and do cheerleading. The image is very innocent.

One Tree Hill.

This programme is also ongoing and very successful with 7 series, with the talk of more. This programme is another American series where the kids are in high school, freshmen and senior year. The audience is a little older, more like skins. The kids have sex, take drugs, go to music concerts etc... The programme is more personal again, and you see the ins- and -outs of their everydy life at school and also out of school. The kids dont wear uniforms in America unlike the UK but there is cheerleading, basketball, and education taking place. The programme shows all the difficulties teenagers go through growing up. 

These are some images from the different series that show the different characters and what they get up too.

General Research

After being given the project i decided to do a general internet search for initial ideas. See what images i could find to might help develop an idea further.
These are the images i thought related to the word EDUCATION.

School books.

Colouring pencils. Art - a school activity

Education - Maths a core subject.

Money - Gaining a degree in a certain profession can earn you alot of money, can also put you into a lot of debt.

Graduation.

Iconic American school bus.

First seminar gave us the opportunity to write down any initial ideas as a group about the word education. 

We also watched a short animation film about education. These are some of the things we picked up from the film.....

• Treating kids like a factory, everything is very robotic. You go through school in your age groups like year 9, year 10, year 11. 
• You become less creative when your older, because you go through so many tests and getting told what you can and cant do. no cheating, no looking at the back of the book. There is only one right answer. 
• ADHD. hyper activity dicorder. becoming more common. 
• Everything is very structured. Always someone above and below you. 
• Social Hiarchy. Popular or unpopular.
• Tutition. Finance. Money espiecally when you get to University level. 
• You can be private schooled. Home schooled. Public schooled. State schooled. You can board at some schools (stay over night) 
• The location of your school can be a good or bad environment. 
• You always get a break time and lunch time. packlunch. School dinners. 
• Obviously different levels of education. Start at kindergardern/playschool. Then primary school. Then secondary school. Then College. Then University.

Education!

Dictionary definition of the word Education:

• the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.

• the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.  

          a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education.

• the result produced by instruction, training, or study: to show one's education.

• the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.

This Video we watched in the seminar was alot of inspiration for me.