School Guidance and Counselling: Trends and Practices
Pattie Y. Y. Luk-Fong and Yuk Ching Lee-Man
Abstract
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in Hong Kong. It draws extensively on current research in the field, with a special emphasis on how guidance and counselling could be systematically planned to meet the personal, social and educational and career needs of students. The chapters discuss how counselling could be infused into school activities by employing a team approach, wherein all staff members have specified roles to play. The book also focuses on the Confucian heritage practices in Chinese societies, such as the emphasis on examinati ... More
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in Hong Kong. It draws extensively on current research in the field, with a special emphasis on how guidance and counselling could be systematically planned to meet the personal, social and educational and career needs of students. The chapters discuss how counselling could be infused into school activities by employing a team approach, wherein all staff members have specified roles to play. The book also focuses on the Confucian heritage practices in Chinese societies, such as the emphasis on examinations, the contestations between discipline and guidance, and the role of class teachers in school guidance.
Keywords:
Education,
School guidance,
Counselling,
Hong Kong,
Needs of students,
School activities,
Confucian values
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9789888083411 |
| Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2014 |
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888083411.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Pattie Y. Y. Luk-Fong, editor
Yuk Ching Lee-Man, editor
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