An investigation of the role of guidance and counselling indiscipline in some selected secondary schools in Kieni westy divition of nyeri district
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2012-11-01
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Ngumo, C. M.
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The purpose of this research project was to investigate the role of guidance and counselling in controlling indiscipline in some selected schools of Kieni West Division in Nyeri District.
The sample comprised 3 schools in the division, which have guidance and counselling programmes. 12 teachers were selected where each school provided 4 teachers. The sample also included 120 students from the three schools. The researcher drew a sample of 40 students per school. Then, the researcher interviewed the teacher counsellors from each school all making a total of 3.
The researcher sought to investigate some of the common disciplinary problems in secondary schools in Kieni West Division. He also focused on the strategies the teacher counsellors use to control indiscipline. The study further investigated to wbat extent the strategies used by teacher counsellors are effective in Controlling indiscipline. The study also sought to find out the opinions of teachers and students about the ability of guidance and counselling to control indiscipline. Finally, the study investigated the challenges teacher counsellors face in trying to deal with disciplinary problems.
The data collected seemed to reveal that some of the main disciplinary problems include: lateness for class, not doing assignments and noise making. The study showed that serious disciplinary problems like strikes, bullying and fighting were rare in the sample schools.
The study also revealed that some of the strategies used by the guidance and counselling departments to control indiscipline include talking to students individually and as groups, inviting professionals to talk to students, involving habitual offenders in co-curricular activities, involving teachers in guiding and counselling students and reminding students about school rules.
It was also found out that these strategies appear to be effective because the data collected shows that occurrence of serious disciplinary problems are very rare in all schools. Again, the data collected shows that 78.33% of the students feel that guidance and counselling services in their schools have made them more disciplined.
The data also seems to show that both teachers and students are of the opinion that guidance and counselling has played a significant role in controlling indiscipline. 78.33% of the students feel that guidance and counselling has made them more disciplined. All the 12 teachers interviewed felt that guidance and counselling has made significant contribution in controlling indiscipline.
However, it seems from the data collected that guidance and counselling programmes face a number of challenges in their attempt to control indiscipline. These challenges are, for example, lack of adequate training for teacher counsellors, lack of administrative support and the inability of students to understand the essence o
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Educational Psychology Department, 80p.
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Conselling in secondary schools