TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF CAREER MASTERS' MISTRESSES' FUNCTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF ZONKWA ZONE OF KADUNA STATE
TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF CAREER MASTERS' MISTRESSES' FUNCTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF ZONKWA ZONE OF KADUNA STATE
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1989
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BIJIMI, BENEDICT MAKAMA
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Abstract
In this study, an attempt was made to examine how
secondary school teachers in Zonkwa zone of the Ministry
of Education, Kaduna State, perceived the functions of
the career masters/mistresses. Many teachers are reported
to hold wide-spread misconception and misunderstanding
about the counsellors’ role in school (Ripee, Harvery
and Partner, 1965). Because teachers hold various views
about guidance services, this study was an attempt to find
out their perceptions about career masters/mistresses'
responsibilities in the particular area of study. It is
important not only to seek their opinion about the career
masters/mistresses responsibilities but also to try to
involve them in all aspects of the planning and implementation
of the school guidance programme.
The study therefore involved administering a thirty-eight
item questionnaire (questions including some fixed
alternatives, open-ended and the Likert scale types) to a
total number of two hundred and ten teachers from seven
selected well established grade one secondary schools in
the area of study. The data obtained from the questionnaires
were converted into frequencies for analytical
purposes. Percentages were used for data analyses.
One of the major findings of the study revealed
that a large percentage of the teachers were ignorant
of what guidance and counselling in education is all
about. Invariably, most of the respondents were ignorant
of the specific functions expected of career masters/
mistresses in schools. The research also revealed that
most of the secondary schools have no organized guidance
programmes and invariably no trained career masters and
mistresses.
In the light of the findings, it was recommenced
that immediate steps be taken to establish guidance
programmes in all the schools which have none at present.
The Ministry of Education should make conscious efforts
to send teachers to the universities on study leave to
train as counsellors or at best as career masters and
mistresses. The guidance and counselling unit of the
Ministry of Education, Kaduna State, should be reorganized
to ensure greater efficiency and increased productivity.
The unit should be strengthened and decentralized so that
Zonal sub-units (in the various Zonal Education branches
in the state) can be created. The Ministry of Education
should continue to organize workshops and seminars
for career masters/mistresses and teachers.
School principals and teachers should demonstrate a
total commitment to the establishment and furtherance of
guidance programmes in their schools. They should resist
the temptation of saddling career masters/mistresses with
extraneous duties which bear no relationship with their
guidance functions.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA.
Keywords
TEACHERS,, PERCEPTIONS,, CAREER,, MASTERS,, MISTRESSES,, FUNCTIONS,, CASE STUDY,, ZONKWA ZONE,, KADUNA STATE