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The Influence Of Guidance And Counselling Services On Career Choice Of Secondary School Students
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education
has been described as a vital and indispensable key to any form of
development (Jibrin, et al., 2012).Education in its broadest sense
encompasses all the process individuals go through in life to develop
and optionally utilize their potentials through the acquisition of
knowledge,skills,abilities and attitudes that are necessary for
effective living in society (Umar, et al., 2012).In projection, it is a
process that starts from birth and ends with death which means that
education is a lifelong process. Education is an instrument for
economic, political and scientific development of all nations (Jibrin,
et al., 2012).
According to Umar, et al., (2014), secondary school
education is the engine room of knowledge acquisition, a stage at which
students come in contact with various subjects, which determine the
field of study they will like to pursue in higher secondary school
education is kind of level after the primary education and before higher
education. Its position in educational system also speaks of its
importance. The National policy on Education (FGN, 2004) stated that the
aim of education is to inculcate in the child, the spirit of inquiry
and secondly, education should equip students to live effectively in our
modern age of science and technology. Furthermore, attention was drawn
to need for counselling programmes in school.
The place of
counselling programmes in schools cannot be overemphasized especially
with the daily expansion in the enrolment of students in schools,
growing needs of youths in Nigeria, the continual unrest in schools and
the repeated changes in the educational system (Bolu-Steve, et al.,
2017). Counselling services has become an essential programme in schools
and this cannot be done in isolation. Contextual to this paper,
Guidance has been defined by Umar, et al., (2014) as the total programme
of a number highly specialized activities implemented by specialist to
help individual make wise and intelligent choice and decisions. Eyo, et
al., (2010), averred that guidance is a programme of services to
individuals based on their needs and the influence of environmental
factors. She went ahead to state that guidance and counselling is a
professional field which has a broad range of activities, programmes and
services geared toward assisting individuals to understand themselves,
their problems, their school environment and their world and also to
develop adequate capacity for making wise choices and decisions.
Furthermore, guidance programmes for secondary school students are
designed to address the physical, emotional, social, vocational and
academic difficulties of adolescent students. This is to complement
learning in the classroom and also enhance academic
performance/achievements of students (Eyo, et al., 2010).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to examine the influence of guidance and counselling services on career choice of secondary school students using five selected secondary schools in Otukpo Local Government Area, Benue State as a case study. Specifically, the study was aimed at examining the effectiveness of guidance and counselling services to students in secondary schools under review; determine the extent to which these services provided affects students ‘choice of career; and explore the fact ... Continue reading---
