Assessment of Career Guidance in the Ghanaian Senior High Schools: The Case of Tema Metropolis

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue IV, April 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

Assessment of Career Guidance in the Ghanaian Senior High Schools: The Case of Tema Metropolis

Esther Agbodeka (Rev.Mrs.)¹, Davis Mawuena Aweso², Rev. Ebenezer Tetteh Fiorgbor^3
1Principal, Agogo Presbyterian College of Education, Ghana
^2,3Tutor, Agogo Presbyterian College of Education, Ghana

Abstract:-This paper offers primarily an assessment of parents, teachers and Guidance and Counseling Coordinators involvement in delivering counseling services in Senior High Schools within the Tema metropolis.
Premised on Super’s theory of self-concept, the study conducted involve a heterogeneous sample of 150 respondents, comprising 25 SHS Students, 50 teachers, 50 parents and 25 Guidance and Counseling Coordinators were selected within the metropolis were selected using both statistical and non-statistical sampling techniques. Three questionnaires were the research instruments used to collect data from the respondents. The major findings of the study showed that 40% of the parents were involved in their wards career guidance. Again, 60% teachers were also involved in their students’ career guidance in the selected Senior High Schools in the Tema Metropolis. However, more than half of thestudents’ respondents needed to be guided by teachers especially, in the area of career choice.
Key words and phrases: career, career guidance, guidance and counseling

I. INTRODUCTION

The broad objective of the study was to assess the involvement parents and teachers in programme selection from Junior High Schools leading to career choice in the Ghanaian Senior High Schools.The study was conducted in the Tema Metropolis in the Greater Accra Region of the Republic of Ghana. The Study assessed the capacity of parents and teachers in the Tema Metropolis in managing career guidance and counseling services in the Senior High School.
The paper examine specifically:

• The motivation for parents involvement in their wards career guidance
•  The motivation of teachers involvement in students career guidance
• Capacity, that is, skill and knowledge of parents to manage career guidance
• Capacity that is, skill and knowledge of teachers to manage career guidance
• Resource adequacy of career guidance Coordinators in the senior High Schools to enable them delivers their service effectively.

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