A Study on Status of Guidance Programme in Secondary Schools of Vadodara City

Chaudhari Priti and Mishra Rinku

Guidance in education is necessary for all human beings in the world. It is important to note that guidance is a process of helping an individual to understand one self and the environment. It also helps an individual to recognize and use his/her inner resources to set goals, to make plans, to work outside his/her own problems of development. There are different types of guidance such as educational, vocational, personal and social guidance to mention a few. This kind of education brings confidence in all stake holders. Guidance aims at assisting individuals in understanding themselves in a proper way so as to live better life and school plays a vital role in shaping the personality of a person and in this line, a school guidance programme emphasizes on the maximum growth and development of the students. The findings of the study revealed that the different schools have their own interpretation of the term guidance, the scenario of providing guidance to the students also varied in different schools, counselor/ guidance personnel do faced a lot of problem in the aspect of providing guidance, support from school management and colleges, availability of psychological tests etc. There is lack of awareness among the school personnel’s, lack of activities and facilities in the school and also no planned activities were found, also the carrier masters could not make the programme effective and therefore the guidance programme remained stagnant. So, deliberate efforts are needed on part of school management and policy makers to make guidance programme successful.

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A Case Study of Cognitive – Educational Support for Elderly Female with Alzheimer’s Disease

Beata Borowska-Beszta and Roksana Urban

Care and support for elderly persons is crucial issue for any cultural ground and any country. Special pedagogue (Special educator) in contemporary Polish university realities is person who has learnt while studies and qualified about support of persons with disabilities during life cycle. This mean, special pedagogue is or can be prepared to support persons since early childhood until late adulthood. This article is non-clinical, ethno-educational case study of individual, cognitive-educational, home-based support, conducted for 30 months by undergraduate female student for female diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The case study is description and analysis of individual home-based, cognitive– educational support as an alternative to day-care facilities group support. Study neither examines the influence nor gives quantitative assessment of cognitive-educational support. The study and support raised in the beginning one question: what is the proper way of home-based cognitive-educational support for female in first stage of AD? In the case study two key informants participated: Fiona Fiedler age 77,who received regular cognitiveeducational support and her husband Fred Fiedler. The 3rd informant was Roksana Urban herself who had two roles: data collector as participant observer and regular support person working with Fiona. Personal data of study participants was coded and encrypted by me, ensuring level of wellbeing for participants and ethical considerations of data collection. The results indicate that individual, home-based cognitive-educational support was proper alternative to the day-care based cognitive group treatments. Case study also indicates the importance of homebased support for spouse of person with AD - Fred Fiedler. Moreover, results indicate general positive attitudes to cognitive-educational support and wellbeing of Fiona Fiedler with AD while disease makes progress.

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Quality Management among Secondary Schools of Greater Mumbai: A Study

Khandagale Vidyanand S.

Quality is a buzz word served and expected in all service sectors. The GATS agreement included Education in the service sector and the concept of Quality got affiliated and highlighted in Education Sector. Secondary Education is bridge between primary and higher education. In the present study researcher had made efforts to measure quality management in secondary school of Greater Mumbai. The methodology adopted for the study was descriptive survey and sample of 192 secondary school teachers of Greater Mumbai. The findings of the study were that there was significant difference in Infrastructure facilities between aided and unaided Secondary schools of Greater Mumbai, Student Support and Progression between aided and Unaided Secondary schools of Greater Mumbai, Quality Management between aided and Unaided Secondary schools of Greater Mumbai. Teaching, Learning and Evaluation between Marathi and English medium Secondary schools of Greater Mumbai, Student Support and Progression between Marathi and English medium Secondary schools of Greater Mumbai. Majority of the teachers have specified the mission but none of them even being from same institution have given one specific mission but it varies from person to person. There is a significant difference in infrastructure facilities between Aided and Unaided Secondary schools of Greater Mumbai.

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Multigrade Teaching and Learning in Pro-Poor Private Schools; Nyeri County

Gichuhi Loise

Attainment of universal primary education envisaged within Dakar framework is becoming elusive in many countries. Data shows that out- of- school children have stagnated at 57 million by 2011 (GMR, 2013/14). Global Monitoring Report (2012) noted that some countries in sub-Saharan Africa have achieved noticeable achievements in leveling education for all targets. However, some countries are still lagging behind on NER and GER. In Kenya, the GER has grown to 113% by 2012, currently estimated at 9.3 million. With the introduction of the FPE (2003), some private schools became under populated with a high exodus from private to public schools. This is worsened by the form one selection criteria where learners from public schools have a high chance of joining the “best” public secondary schools in Kenya. This has left private with low enrolment. Some private schools have resulted to multi-grade teaching albeit with difficulties. This paper describes how multi- grade approach has been used in pro-poor private schools, the challenges, policy implications and lessons learnt.

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