Guidance and counseling as a measure to maintain discipline in public primary schools in Nyandarua South district, Kenya
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate guidance and counseling as a
measure to maintain discipline in public primary schools in Nyandarua
South District Kenya. The following were the specific objectives of the
study: To determine the importance of guidance and counseling services in
Nyandarua South District primary schools. To determine the pupils
perception of the guidance and counseling role in primary schools.
To establish the provision of physical facilities for guidance and
counseling in schools and to assess level of counseling in primary schools
in Nyandarua South District.
This study adopted a descriptive survey on what was already happening on
the ground without manipulation of responses. The study targeted forty
primary schools in Nyandarua south district.
The district was divided into three zones with a total population of 520
teachers and a total Number of 18,800 pupils. Twenty head teachers and
twenty guidance and counseling teachers were sampled for the study. 40
pupils were also randomly selected for the study. The study employed
stratified random sampling techniques. This method was employed to
ensure equal chance of selection of schools based on school size.
Purposeful sampling was used for all head teachers in all primary school
simple random sampling was used in schools with more than one stream to
select two respondents among the pupils in class eight.
Questionnaires were used as the research instruments. A questionnaire for
each category of respondent in the study was produced.
There were questionnaires for head teachers guidance and counseling
teachers and the pupils.
The researcher sought permission to conduct the research from the national
council of science and technology through the district education officer
Nyandarua south district and the district commissioner Nyandarua South
District. The data collected was analyzed using statistical package for
social sciences (SPSS)
The difference between the respondents who agreed that guidance and
counseling is an effective way of maintaining discipline among pupils and
those who said that guidance and counseling was not an effective way of
maintaining discipline among pupils was small standing at 56.25% and
43.75% respectively. This indicated that there was need for more
orientations on guidance and counseling needs among the headteachers.
Headteachers and teachers need to be made more aware of guidance and
counseling roles among the pupils.
Pupils perception on guidance and counseling was that guidance and
counseling was good and effective in maintaining discipline in the schools
62.5% agreed that guidance and counseling was good and helpful to the
needy pupils 6.25% agreed that guidance and counseling was not good and
did not change pupils behavior. Another 31.25% said guidance and
counseling does not work especially with large numbers of pupils
From the findings, public schools do not have physical facilities for
guidance and counseling 62.5% said they did not have physical facilities
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such as rooms. Only 37.5% of respondents said that they had rooms where
guidance and counseling could be done. The respondents said that there
was guidance and counseling in public primary schools 78.13% of the
pupils reported that guidance and counseling existed in their schools. Only
21.87% of the pupils denied presence of guidance and counseling
programmes in their schools.
Pupils also need to consult their guidance and counseling teachers and
other teachers whenever they have issues. They should be made aware of
the need to open up in order to benefit from guidance and counseling
services
Citation
Mwaura, James Kiarie. 2013. Guidance And Counseling As A Measure To Maintain Discipline In Public Primary Schools In Nyandarua South District, Kenya. A Research Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements of the Award of the Degree of Master of Education in Educational Administration University of Nairobi.Publisher
University of Nairobi, School of Education
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