THE ROLE OF SCHOOL UNIFORMS IN CREATING AN ACADEMICALLY MOTIVATING CLIMATE: DO UNIFORMS INFLUENCE TEACHER EXPECTATIONS?
This study sought to examine the perceptions of a group of public elementary school teachers toward a new school uniform policy adopted for their building. Interviews and non participant observations were the primary sources of data collection, and open coding was utilized to name and categorize basic concepts, themes, and other phenomena. Teachers in the study perceived that uniforms enhanced the learning environment by encouraging integrality among students, enriching the quality of interactions between faculty and students and improving discipline. The researcher also employed attribution theory to consider how the social perceiver uses information to arrive at causal explanations for events. Social learning theory rests on the premise that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings those things have for them, and that such meanings arise out of the interaction of the individual with others.