Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives

Enhancing guidance through professionalization

2023-11-18T17:15:01+03:00

The paper explores the changing landscape of education and teacher professionalization in Western nations, focusing on French-speaking Belgium. This shift towards a post-bureaucratic paradigm emphasizes local autonomy and managerial ethics, reshaping educators' roles from traditional "masters" or "technicians" to "reflective practitioners" and "learning specialists." This transformation empowers teachers in innovation and prompts reflection on teaching methods, necessitating their involvement in school management, and fostering collaboration among peers and institutions. The study analyses teacher professionalization centers on integrating educational guidance into pedagogical practices. The study details international directives and addresses societal, educational, and organizational challenges, faced by secondary schools in French-speaking Belgium during this transition. Additionally, it examines the historical progression of educational regulations, highlighting the shift from bureaucratic to autonomous models to meet the needs of both educational authorities and school users.

Keywords: Educational guidance; guidance; reflective practitioner; teacher professionalization; school management

Intervention strategies and counseling approaches for school-based academic stress management

2024-03-25T13:07:32+03:00

The response of an individual when facing something can be classified as a form of stress; if it occurs in students who experience symptoms caused by academic activities that can cause stress, this can be classified as a form of academic stress. Counselors must provide intervention services to help kids manage their academic stress because this issue cannot be left untreated. This research aims to determine and analyze the approaches and techniques used in handling academic stress experienced by students. The method for carrying out this research is a literature review which is an activity of collecting, reading, studying, and researching the research topic. Data collection was assisted by the Publish or Perish 7 application with library sources via Google School, Science Direct, and the open-access journal directory. The results of the study show that the implementation of the intervention is carried out through individual counseling and group counseling services.

Keywords: Academic stress; counseling approaches; counseling techniques; students.

Psychosocial elements as correlates of academic disposition of adolescents living with grandparents

2024-05-20T13:38:07+03:00

Academic excellence from students is desirable to parents, but recently the passion to strive for such success seems to be dwindling among female adolescent secondary school students hence the need for this study which examined psychosocial elements as correlates of the academic disposition of adolescents living with grandparents. A correlational research method was applied. Three research questions were raised and three hypotheses were formulated. The population comprised 253 female students randomly selected from nine senior secondary schools from four Local Government Areas of Education District III. Instruments used for data collection were the Rosenberg self-esteem scale and a self-developed questionnaire by the researcher tagged Academic Disposition and Sexual Proneness Questionnaire (ADSPQ). Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and Multiple Regression. Findings revealed that adolescent students living with grandparents in Education District III do not necessarily get involved in sexual activities because of their living conditions. One recommendation made was grandparents should be encouraged to engage in sexuality and sex-related conversations with their children as early as possible.

Keywords: academic excellence; Adolescents; female students; grandparents; sexual-proneness