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Identifying Schools As Caring Communities: Teacher Perceptions About Character Education, Jasmine Johnson May 2021

Identifying Schools As Caring Communities: Teacher Perceptions About Character Education, Jasmine Johnson

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This study quantified teacher perceptions and their observations of school community interactive attachments. Observed attachments through teacher perceptions classified school communities as caring. Elementary school teachers in the southern United States districts volunteered, in order to determine the significance of school-based taught or learned character education principles in comparison with caring attachments. Data were collected using the Caring Community Profile – II questionnaire, which measures the participants’ attitudes by the extent to which they agree or disagree with a statement. The results clarified the significance of character education programs that identify school communities as caring.

Additionally, the findings answered the …