Guidance and counseling programmes: An imperative for adolescent learners in Malamulele Circuit in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
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description: South African education has undergone major restructuring since 1994 with the aim of improving lives of learners, their parents and educators. Restructuring and re-orientation has fortuitously caused casualties along the way. One such casualty was the redeployment of guidance counsellors and consequent marginalization of school guidance and counselling programmes. In the light of the above, the main aim of this study was to investigate learner’s and educator’s/counsellors’ experiences of guidance and counselling programmes in selected ten (10) secondary schools of Malamulele Circuit and implications thereof. It also made inferences on the state of guidance and counselling programmes in schools. The final outcome of the study was to identify challenges and formulate a framework or strategy to address implementation of guidance and counselling programmes in secondary school. The study employed a quantitative method to generate data. Data was collected through questions directed to forty (40) learners and ten (10) educators/counsellors of secondary schools. Ten secondary schools were randomly selected from fourteen secondary schools in Malamulele circuit. The study revealed a dire need for guidance and counselling (including one-on-one counselling), personal guidance, career guidance and career counselling. All these were meant to empower youth to address issues and challenges affecting them and their future prospects. Life Orientation, which is a relatively new addition to the school curricula, is the available form of guidance and counselling since it is a learning area prescribed by the Department of Basic Education. The introduction of Life Orientation as a school subject was meant as a substitute for school guidance and counselling. However, services meant to promote holistic development of youth by focusing on and enhancing their social, intellectual, academic and affective aspects were inadequate, especially because as revealed by preliminary findings of the stu…
abstract: South African education has undergone major restructuring since 1994 with the aim of improving lives of learners, their parents and educators. Restructuring and re-orientation has fortuitously caused casualties along the way. One such casualty was the redeployment of guidance counsellors and consequent marginalization of school guidance and counselling programmes. In the light of the above, the main aim of this study was to investigate learner’s and educator’s/counsellors’ experiences of guidance and counselling programmes in selected ten (10) secondary schools of Malamulele Circuit and implications thereof. It also made inferences on the state of guidance and counselling programmes in schools. The final outcome of the study was to identify challenges and formulate a framework or strategy to address implementation of guidance and counselling programmes in secondary school. The study employed a quantitative method to generate data. Data was collected through questions directed to forty (40) learners and ten (10) educators/counsellors of secondary schools. Ten secondary schools were randomly selected from fourteen secondary schools in Malamulele circuit. The study revealed a dire need for guidance and counselling (including one-on-one counselling), personal guidance, career guidance and career counselling. All these were meant to empower youth to address issues and challenges affecting them and their future prospects. Life Orientation, which is a relatively new addition to the school curricula, is the available form of guidance and counselling since it is a learning area prescribed by the Department of Basic Education. The introduction of Life Orientation as a school subject was meant as a substitute for school guidance and counselling. However, services meant to promote holistic development of youth by focusing on and enhancing their social, intellectual, academic and affective aspects were inadequate, especially because as revealed by preliminary findings of the stu…
author: Davhana, Mashudu Ben
language: en
keywords: School educators, School counsellor, Principal, Learner, Adolescent, Psychosocial support services, Mental health
date published: 2020
date modified: 2026-07-27T21:57:52Z
provider: University of Venda
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Venda

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