| dc.description.abstract | Career guidance and counselling services is one of the roles of teachers/instructors in training
institutions which are offered to students to enlighten them about their career choices. This
action research project aimed at improving career guidance and counselling practices in building
construction at Nawanyago Technical Institute. The specific objectives of the study were: To
establish the challenges faced by students due to inadequate career guidance and counselling,
identify strategies for improving career guidance and counselling practices, implement possible
strategies and evaluate the implemented strategies.
Collaborative action research design was used. Data was collected from study sample of twenty
five (25) participants who were purposively selected. Out of that number, eighteen (18) were
students of building construction, three (3) were instructors of building construction, three (3)
were administrators and one (1) civil engineer from the world of work. Future workshop was
employed as a method to identify the key challenges faced due to inadequate career guidance
and counselling. Data was collected using the focus group discussions, participatory observation,
document analysis and questionnaire survey. The data collected was recorded and presented
under themes following the research objectives. Evaluation of the strategies was done using
observation method and instruments.
Study key challenges were; lack of knowledge on career progression, lack of knowledge on
how to relate well with workmates in the field, desperation, poor attitude towards the course,
accidents in the workshop, lack of creativity, time wastage, early marriages, low self-esteem,
stress and change of career. Identified interventions were; (i) conducting career talks to address
the mentioned challenges, (ii) Integration of career guidance and counselling during teaching
and learning, (iii) display of general workshop rules and regulations in building workshop. The
results showed that this action research improved students' awareness about the course and
changed their mind set.
It was recommended that career talks should continue and an office for career guidance be
established at NTI.
Key words: Career, Guidance, Counselling, Collaborative, Implement, Evaluate | en_US |
