Would it be a problem if uniform clothes such as aprons and uniforms were no longer used in schools? The change in an order that has been going on for years brings with it many concerns. Is the authority of administration and teachers weakened in schools? What will be the situation of children with insufficient economic power? Like..
We see that going to school with uniform clothes especially in adolescence is challenging for school administrations. However, its complete removal may create problems in compliance with authority among students. This issue should be supported by values education. Socialization is an important issue in schools, and it is necessary to experience positivity in relations with the person in front of us while socializing. People adopt a style of clothing that is close to them and social relations can be established more easily.
Wearing a brand in socio-economic terms and not reaching the brand can cause problems. However, students who are not interested in this subject, if they are interested in their lessons, can feel comfortable and head towards their education without feeling limited. However, comparing himself with his friend in socio-economic terms and being behind on his friend’s clothing can cause problems in self-confidence. It may not be a problem for a self-confident child. A child who does not have self-confidence will feel obliged to obey his friends and will be afraid of being excluded. This will be more evident in adolescence.
Administrative and educational difficulties can be experienced in schools, as dominant characters make themselves stand out. “Education is the process of creating a desired change in an individual’s behavior through his own life and intentionally” (Ertürk, 1974, p.12). Therefore, it has a plan, program and discipline. There is no education where there is no discipline. It is important to awaken internal discipline here. Children should be able to have self-control. Families and the school should be supportive while learning behavior about what is right and what is wrong.
In addition, he adopts the idea of ”what will I wear today?”, which is a problem that affects employees and makes them think every day, and the idea that it may cause problems in self-identification in the social field. The idea of dress in schools will come to the fore at first, everyone will think about how stylish and remarkable they will be the next day, and these concerns will disappear in time. It would be optimistic to say that there will be no difficulties in the transition period. Although brands seem to be something that everyone wants to achieve at first, their influence will dissipate over time due to diversity, and students will stick to their lessons if that emotion can be aroused. Free dress code can be helpful for the development of decision-making and individualization skills. Some problems are likely to be experienced during the transition period. The student can attend an after-school activity and be ready as a dress with one or two minor changes. However, the limited use of jewelry in adolescent girls seems to be difficult to implement. The freedom to use accessories in clothes will naturally become natural.
The most important issue here will be the attitudes of the family and how they will reflect this to their children and how they will react to the influences from their child. It will be necessary to raise awareness of the child, to make him understand that the school is an educational place and to keep it warm.
Families, regardless of their situation, should not feel oppressed, and should make their children adopt the idea that everyone can experience differences in income distribution. They should explain that the important thing is to earn by working, making effort and the right way, and they should focus on this issue.
In addition, children should be directed to social activities and sports, courses on hand skills and repair should be opened, children should be able to feel competent in all areas and attention should be given to these aspects. You should also think in this way. Every place has an average certain outfit. Students who use excesses over time can meet in the middle by being rasped in society. School can be a setting to learn this. With the rapid progress of the age, children and young people felt themselves too limited, and with the increase in consumption items and attracting attention, everyone was in a quest. Restrictions were out of date, students were overwhelmed, practitioners were having difficulties. Schools were generally prisons for students, and they came to school for the anxiety of absenteeism and to be together with their friends. We have long passed the days when notebooks and books were only covered with red and blue cover paper, and in a time of such diversity, it could no longer be resisted. The concerns come from families and teachers, because families cannot meet their children’s wishes; teachers, on the other hand, are afraid of not being able to provide authority. With free clothing, children become completely human beings of the world, their ties with any educational institution are eliminated and they become independent. Considering that students spend more time at school than in the past, children’s childhood and youth pass without wearing up-to-date clothes. The child comes to school in the evening and the time for his/her own clothing is limited to 3-5 hours at most; it is usually sweatpants and pajamas. Considering the education years, an average of 12 years, childhood and adolescence are spent wearing a single color and a single model of clothing.
Common goals, being educated at such and such a school has generally become a distant value today. If the student is at school this year, not next year. The teacher and the administrator are the same. The ties with the institution are weak. No one stands together for a certain ideal. Having a corporate identity and belonging are good concepts… Certain schools are able to maintain this. There is continuity in these schools. It is essential that the employees and students embrace their institutions and make an effort not to tarnish or humiliate their name.
Since schools are educational areas, excesses in clothes can distract attention and take the job away from its essence. The important thing is education, life knowledge and behavior. Feeling very comfortable in education distracts from education. For example, a student should not sit in a very comfortable chair while studying, and should not study in bed. Educators must be sufficiently advanced in the fields of classroom management, content knowledge, pedagogical formation, emotional intelligence, and communication. Good communication between the family and the school should be ensured, the necessary support should be given to the teachers from home, and love and respect should be emphasized. A warm but certain distance should be maintained in teacher-student relations.
ÖZNUR SIMAV
Pedagogue-family and communication consultant
