Guidance & Counseling Services in Nigerian Public Primary Schools: Challenges and the Way forward
Abstract
This paper examined the problems preventing effective delivering of guidance and counseling services in Nigerian public primary schools. The paper depends on secondary data which was sorted from print and online publication. This paper identified: inadequate funding, inadequate professional guidance and counseling teachers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, poor supervision, political instability, lack of Guidance and Counseling charts, shortage of lesson period, political influence, changes in Educational Policy and lack of administrative support as the problems preventing effective delivering of guidance and counseling service in Nigerian public primary schools. To solve these problems identified in this paper, the presenters suggested the following: increase the funding, employ more professional guidance and counseling teachers, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, improve on the supervision of guidance and counseling programme, provide adequate working materials for guidance and counsellors, more lesson period should be provided for guidance and counselling programme, school administrators and teachers should support the guidance and counseling teachers and government should develop the political will to develop the guidance and counseling programme at the primary school education in Nigeria.
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