ABSTRACT
In the lives of teachers wishing to express their child-centred pedagogy, consent in education started perhaps with their sense of vocation for the profession and their own educational theory. Levels of consent unawareness extend of course among young people into their personal lives. In every aspect of young people's lives consent features: work, sexuality, family, friends, community. Given that most children attend school to get an education to fit them for society, there are interesting concerns in many of these settings with consent (or lack of it) around their appearance. While considering this does not take account of issues of control, uniformity of image and branding, compliance, fascism, behavioural regulation, the hidden curriculum and so on, the matter of school rules about what to wear is a classic example of lack of consent in education. At the heart of education lies a lot of silence about consent.
