Abstract:
The focus of the study was to examine the role Guidance and Counselling plays in
promoting student discipline in Fumbisi Senior School in the Upper East Region of
Ghana. The relevance of the study was established on the background of a worsening
disciplinary situation in Senior High Schools in Ghana in the aftermath of the ban on
corporal punishment. The study was guided by three research questions. Quantitative
approach was employed using Descriptive Survey Design for the study. The target
population of the study was all teachers of Fumbisi Senior High School. The sampling
technique employed was Census sampling since the sample population comprised all
87 teachers who taught at the school at the time of the study. The findings of the study
revealed that students’ indiscipline remain a major challenge in Fumbisi Senior High
School. Guidance and Counselling was established in this study as an effective
approach to managing students’ indiscipline. It was therefore recommended that
Guidance and Counselling be fully utilized in managing students’ indiscipline,
especially with the ban on corporal punishment. Also, hindrances confronting the
operation of Guidance and Counselling in schools should be resolved to enable them
realize its full potential in the effective management of students’ indiscipline.
Description:
A dissertation in the Department of Educational Foundations,
Faculty of Educational Studies submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of degree of
Postgraduate Diploma in Education
(Education)
in the University of Education, Winneba
