Some thoughts about the future of guidance and counselling in Nigeria.

From: Education | Date: December 22, 2004| Author: Aluede, Oyaziwo; Adomeh, Ilu O.C.; Afen-Akpaida, Justina E. | Copyright information

Although, Aluede, Egbule and Okorodudu (1988, as cited in Aluede, 2000) had observed that guidance and counselling service is a relatively new educational delivery service in Nigeria's educational system, one may today be tempted to think differently because, any child born in 1959, the year guidance and counselling is known to have begun in Nigeria (Ipaye, 1983, as cited in Aluede, McEachern & Kenny, in press), would no longer be regarded as an adolescent or a youth. He/she could ...

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