Career guidance and counseling practices in folk development colleges in Njombe region,Tanzania
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2020
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University of Dar es Salaam
Abstract
Career guidance and counseling practices in folk development colleges in Njombe region,Tanzania
Gabriel Mathew
MA (Applied Social Psychology) University of Dar es Salaam, School of Education, 2020
This was a study of Career Guidance and Counseling Practices in Folk Development
Colleges in Njombe Region, Tanzania. The study specifically dealt with (i)
identifying career guidance and counseling practices available in FDCs (ii)
examining tutors' and students’ awareness on career guidance and counseling in
FDCs (iii) assessing career guidance and counseling environment in FDCs and (iv)
exploring challenges facing career guidance and counseling practices in 1 DC s and
ways of addressing them. The study was guided by social cognitive theory' by
Bandura. The study was conducted in FDCs in Njombe region. Purposive and Quota
sampling were employed in getting 47 respondents, these included FDC Board
members, FDC Principals, FDC tutors, FDC students and the surrounding
community members who had children studying in FDCs. The research used
qualitative approach informed by the case study design in order to achieve objectives
of the study. Data for this study were collected through semi-structured interview,
observation and Focus Group Discussion. The collected data were analyzed by the
use of thematic analysis in order to produce a report. The findings revealed that
tutors were aware on CGC as a profession, some had skills on career counseling but
not given the task of conducting CGC services; other tutors had no skills on career
counseling. The task of providing CGC services was given to training coordinators
who were also not skillful enough to provide the service as they lacked training on
career guidance and counseling. The CGC environment in the FDCs was not in good
quality as there were no rooms for career counseling, shortage of computers as
compared to the available number of students; and other FDC had no internet
services. The revealed challenges hindered CGC services in FDCs included
unplanned career counseling activities, computer illiteracy among training
coordinators, FDC economic constraints, parents and peer pressure in choosiim a
student’s career, and economic problems among parents. The suggested ways of
combating challenges included the plan for establishing modern programmes and
buying modem machines, to involve the community in decision making and
advertising the FDCs in the nearby school graduation ceremony and in the village
meetings. The study’s conclusion is based on making career guidance and
counseling a special unit in order to help more FDC students. It is recommended that
the MoEST and the surrounding community should work together to help the funds:
also the MoEST should implement ways of assessing CGC services in FDCs as
recommended by the vocational education policy. FDCs were recommended to use
small projects in providing training on career counseling to training coordinators and
other tutors; also the frequent review of the FDC curriculum is recommend
Description
Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr.Wilbert Chagula Library, class mark (THS EAF BF636.T34M37)
Keywords
Conselling ,, Vocational guidance,, Falk development colleges,, Njombe region, ,Tanzania
Citation
Mathew G,(2020) Career guidance and counseling practices in folk development colleges in Njombe region,Tanzania,Masters dissertation,University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam.