COUNSELLING FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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This paper is aimed at exploring Guidance and counselling as an instrument of attaining educational reform and sustainable development in Nigeria. Education is an informal and formal teaching and learning process aimed at improving knowledge and the development of skills from elementary to higher education. Education is relevant in fulfilling economic, political, cultural and technological advancement. Guidance and Counselling serves as one of the agencies for creating an intervening effect in the standard of education. This paper examined the concept of educational reforms in Nigeria, the concept of sustainable development, the concept of guidance and counseling. The role of guidance and counseling for achievement of educational reform and sustainable development and the various strategies for improving guidance and counselling for sustainable development and educational reforms were also highlighted. This paper concludes by establishing that guidance and counselling is very relevant in meeting the needs of education reforms and sustainable development and therefore recommend among other things that, there is the need for capacity building and professional development for members of the Counselling Association of Nigeria to abreast modern trend comparable with any standard in the world.
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