scholarly journals Using a Transformative Paradigm Research Approach to Investigate Guidance and Counselling Service in Papua New Guinea Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kainaro Kravia ◽  
Paul Pagliano
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Counselling Service ◽  
Counselling Services

Since the introduction of school guidance and counseling services in Papua New Guinea (PNG) schools in the 1970s little has changed. A limited number of Guidance Officers (GOs) each look after a large number of secondary schools. Consequently they only have time to administer a bank of Australian Council for Education Research (ACER) aptitude tests to grade 11 students and provide limited career guidance to year 12 students. This means that more than one million school aged children in PNG miss out on adequate guidance and counselling services, with any support they do receive being provided by untrained school personnel. This comparative study using a transformative paradigm research approach will explore guidance and counselling service in PNG and Australia with a particular focus on services available to schools in Goroka (PNG) and in Townsville (Queensland, Australia). Townsville has been identified as an ideal location because of Australia’s political history and its legacies in many systems of government (including the education system), economic practices and social life in PNG. Another factor is the researcher’s location as a post graduate student at the James Cook University in Townsville. The study will utilise a mixed methods comprising of autoethnography, survey, and interview. Through autoethnography the researcher intends to investigate his own experiences working in guidance and counselling services in PNG. Next is the use of a survey questionnaire to gauge care-givers’ views about the scope and type of services currently provided in PNG and in Queensland schools. Finally, several pertinent individuals in PNG and the State of Queensland will be interviewed about guidance and counselling services in the respective countries with a view to exploring how services will need to change to better meet anticipated future requirements. The information is then distilled to make recommendations as to how guidance and counseling services in PNG schools might be transformed.

scholarly journals Students’ Perception of the Influence of Guidance and Counselling Services and Academic Performance in Baringo Country, Kenya.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Wilson Kiptala ◽  
John Kipruto
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
The Self ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
Perception Theory

The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions of students of the influence of guidance and counseling services on academic performance in Baringo County, Kenya. The objectives of the study were to: investigate the perception of students on the various guidance and counseling services and determine the perceptions of students on the influence of guidance and counseling on academic performance. The study was guided by the self-perception theory. The ontology was constructivist. The epistemology was interpretivist. The research method was qualitative. The research design was phenomenology. Samples of 12 secondary schools, 130 students, 12 teachers were selected. Focus Group Discussion (FDG) and interview guides were used to generate data. The data was thematically analyzed. The study major findings were; that students perceived guidance and counseling services positively and that they had contributed significantly to their academic performance. The study recommends that there is need to further develop and strengthen guidance and counseling in Baringo County Secondary Schools and develop a theory to guide this process, informed by increased cases of indiscipline and truancy among students.

scholarly journals PENAKERJA: IMPLEMENTASI PERMENDIKBUD NOMOR 111 TAHUN 2014 TENTANG BIMBINGAN DAN KONSELING PADA PENDIDIKAN DASAR DAN MENENGAH DI SD MUHHAMMADIYAH PK SURAKARTA DAN MIM PK KARTASURA

Warta LPM ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
Saring Marsudi ◽  
Suwarno Suwarno ◽  
Murfiah Dewi Wulandari ◽  
Winda Hastuti
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Special Program ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Partner Schools

The general objective of this community service activity is facilitating the theoretical and practical BK services in Muhammadiyah Elementary School of Special Program in Surakarta and MIM Kartasura in implementing Permendikbud No. 111 of 2014 in an effort to improve the professionalism of teachers. In particular, the purpose of the community service is to facilitate the understanding the partner schools in Counselling services in the areas of personal, social, learning, and career. The service activities include socialization Permendikbud No. 111 of 2014 concerning guidance and counseling services in primary school, a discussion on the basic concept of guidance and counseling, and workshops on the implementation of guidance and counseling in Muhammadiyah Elementary School of Special Program in Surakarta and MIM Kartasura. Community service activities have received positive responses namely the formation of a formal institution Institute of Guidance and Counseling in each school. These institutions equipped with the personnel in charge, coordinator and teacher who oversees areas: personal, social, learning, and career.

Enhancing Employability Skills Among University Students Through Career Guidance and Counseling

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Christina Jerome Shuma ◽  
January Marco Basela
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Learning Institutions

This chapter explored the role of career guidance and counseling in promoting graduates' employability skills in Tanzania higher learning institutions. A total of 123 respondents were involved. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, and focused group discussion. The study revealed that HLIs do not have professionals in career guidance and counseling who are solely employed to offer such services; the task is left to lecturers and wardens. Career guidance and counseling services were also found to be inadequate and not formalized thereby threatening students' acquisition of employability skills. The study recommends that higher learning institutions (HLIs) in Tanzania should see the possibilities of preparing students in various competence areas such as academic excellence, career aspects, personal and social skills. This can only be achieved by establishing comprehensive career guidance and counseling units within the institutions.

The Monologic Imagination

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Design ◽  
Do So

The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently “dialogical.” No speaker speaks alone because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others, past and future. Moreover, we never fashion ourselves entirely by ourselves but always do so in concert with others. Bakhtin thus decisively reshaped modern understandings of language and subjectivity. And yet, the contributors to this volume argue that something is potentially overlooked with too close a focus on dialogism: many speakers, especially in charged political and religious contexts, work energetically at crafting monologues, single-voiced statements to which the only expected response is agreement or faithful replication. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the United States, Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, Algeria, and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that a focus on “the monologic imagination” gives us new insights into languages’ political design and religious force, and deepens our understandings of the necessary interplay between monological and dialogical tendencies.

scholarly journals Storying Toward Pasin and Luksave: Permeable Relationships Between Papua New Guineans as Researchers and Participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692095718
Author(s):  
Vincent Backhaus ◽  
Nalisa Neuendorf ◽  
Lokes Brooksbank
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Austronesian Language ◽  
Story Work ◽  
Research Assumptions ◽  
Papua New Guinean

In Oceania, Papua New Guinea (PNG) appears large in the consciousness of exploring social life through the notion of sociality. Scholarship within the Melanesian region employs sociality to interrogate forms of social life and the different ways research methods account for the understanding of interactions between individuals and communities. Yet for the three PNG authors this assumed coherency between epistemes and method highlighted specific conceptual challenges for us as researchers and participants. We identified with two conceptual notions: “pasin” and “luksave” as distinct Austronesian language ideas derived from Tok Pisin—a creolisation of English utilized as a lingua franca throughout the country. We explored the development of pasin and luksave and the ways the conceptual claims served a dual function of developing a methodological and epistemic pathway toward an ethical assurance of meaningful relationality. We extend on current understanding in two ways. Firstly employing the methodology of story as critique of research assumptions and secondly, extend on the process of story work to suggest storying as a novel but relatable research methodology. Storying such research experiences as both method and epistemic accountability, guided our responsibility toward the relationships we hold to people, community and knowledge. Pasin and luksave embed an emancipatory and de-colonial intent through the guise of oral stories. These intentions in our scholarship fostered a form of coherent expressions of research claim and method assumption and also raised questions for us regarding what decolonizing Papua New Guinea ought to consider. Our paper also highlights a reformulation of the different ways research considers Oceania in particular Melanesia and the Papua New Guinean research context.

scholarly journals Examining the Influence of Individual Guidance and Counseling Services on the Self-Efficacy of Children Living in Orphanages in Bungoma County

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Benson M. Nasongo; James Kay; Bernard Chemwei
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of individual guidance and counselling services on the self-efficacy of orphaned children living in orphanages in Bungoma County. The researcher adopted the ex-post facto research design. The population of the study was 2132 orphans in the 20 orphanages. 280 of the orphans in all the 20 orphanages were interviewed. One (1) caregiver and one (1) administrator (again per orphanage) were interviewed. Out of a total of 20 Children’s Homes in Bungoma County, the researcher purposively sampled 280 orphans that were interviewed. Questionnaires and interview schedules were used to collect data from the respondents who included the orphans, orphanages administrators and caregivers. The self-efficacy scale of 1-4 was converted to between 0-100. The data was prepared, coded and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Strict ethical considerations were observed during the study. The study established that there was a positive and significant relationship between self-efficacy of orphaned children and individual guidance and counselling services. The study’s recommendations were that the government should come up with policies to guide all the orphanages in Kenya, including the process of guiding and counselling. Every orphanage should also engage the services of a qualified guiding and counselling specialist for the orphans and should be paid well to avoid high turnover. Individual guiding and counselling services should be encouraged in orphanages as they are effective. They help the orphans open up and share challenges and enable them to solve serious life’s challenges.

scholarly journals Profil Kematangan Karier Mahasiswa STAI Siliwangi Bandung

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
Ahmad Rifqy Ash Shiddiqy
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Career Maturity ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Guidance Services ◽  
Guidance Service ◽  
The World

PROFILE OF STUDENTS CAREER MATURITY STAI SILIWANGI BANDUNG. This study is driven by the tendency of guidance and counseling services at universities, especially in STAI Siliwangi Bandung by students to establish their future career maturity, nevertheless, the services obtained do not meet their expectations. Considering career guidance for students, especially student career maturity is left alone, passes, and runs by itself. Then students will experience confusion and unpreparedness in facing the next career demands. Students are the final status as learners before entering the world of work and following career demands, so they need direction, career guidance to stimulate the development and stabilization of their career orientation optimally according to the level and characteristics typical of the progress as it goes through. The purpose of this research is the formation of the maturity profile of the student's career. This research uses the quantitative method. This research produces (1) Maturity picture of Student Career (2) The effectiveness of career counseling to strengthen the maturity of the student's career. The conclusion of the research is the maturity of the student's career is in mature category, there is no career guidance service to strengthen student career maturity in STAI Siliwangi Bandung, based on the results of research can be formulated a model of collaborative career guidance services to harden the maturity of STAI Siliwangi Bandung student career.

scholarly journals Efektivitas Bimbingan Karier terhadap Kematangan Karier Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
Ahmad Rifqy Ash Shiddiqy ◽  
Uman Suherman ◽  
Mubiar Agustin
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Career Maturity ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Guidance Services ◽  
Guidance Service ◽  
The World

EFFECTIVENESS OF CAREER GUIDANCE ON STUDENT CAREER MATURITY. This study is driven by the tendency of guidance and counseling services at universities, especially in Indonesia University of education by students to establish their future career maturity, nevertheless, the services obtained do not meet their expectations. Considering career guidance for students, especially student career maturity is left alone, passes, and runs by itself. Then students will experience confusion and unpreparedness in facing the next career demands. Students are the final status as learners before entering the world of work and following career demands, so they need direction, career guidance to stimulate the development and stabilization of their career orientation optimally according to the level and characteristics typical of the progress as it goes through. The purpose of this research is the formation of the maturity profile of the student's career. This research uses the quantitative method. This research produces (1) Maturity picture of Student Career (2) The effectiveness of career counseling to strengthen the maturity of the student's career. The conclusion of the research is the maturity of the student's career is in mature category, there is no career guidance service to strengthen student career maturity in Indonesia University of education, based on the results of research can be formulated a model of collaborative career guidance services to harden the maturity of Indonesia University of education student career.

scholarly journals Strengthening the State: Logging and Neoliberal Politics in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Tammisto
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Road Network ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
National Road ◽  
New Britain

In this paper I will examine how logging in Papua New Guinea affects the relationship between the state and the local communities on whose lands logging operations take place. The point of departure of my argument is the Ili-Wawas Integrated Project, a combined logging and agricultural project which seeks to bring economic development to the remote Pomio district of East New Britain Province by connecting existing logging roads to the limited national road network around the provincial capital. Developing the national road network and creating standardized or—to use James Scott’s concept—legible environments can be seen as an integral part of state-making and strengthening the role of the state. In addition to the environment, the state also needs to make social life legible in forms of maps, censuses and laws. As I will argue in my paper, the Ili-Wawas, and other similar projects, may indeed strengthen the role of the state not only by creating the infrastructure and legibility needed by the state, but also in unintended and accidental ways. The side effects of logging and road building include, among others, fear of crime and land disputes. It is these that create among the locals a perceived need for state institutions, which may be as significant in advancing the role of the state as is the creation of infrastructure and legibility.

scholarly journals Langoron: Music and Dance Performance Realities Among the Lak People of Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Paul Wolffram
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Cultural Setting ◽  
And Performance

<p>This thesis seeks to describe the indigenous realities, meanings, and perspectives that are central to the music and dance practices of the Lak (Siar) people in Southern New Ireland, Papua Now Guinea. The insights recorded here are those gained through the experience of twenty-three months living in Rei and Siar villages as a participant in many aspects of Lak social life. The music and dance practices of the region are examined in the context of the wider social and cultural setting. Lak performance realities, are indivisible from kinship structures, ritual proceedings and spirituality. By contextualising Lak music and dance within the frame of the extensive and socially defining mortuary, rites my intention is to show how music and dance not only reflect but also create Lak realities. By examining the ethnographic materials relating to music, dance and performance in the context of mortuary sequence broader elements of Lak society are brought into focus. In these pages I argue that Lak society is reproduced literally and symbolically in these performances.</p>

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