ROLE OF COUNSELLING IN PROMOTING VALUE RE-ORIENTATION IN TERTIARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper, explored the role of counselling in promoting value re-orientation in an educational system, highlighting the need for professional counsellors, administrators, and policymakers to adapt and improve their practices, the potential values of education, identifying the factors that contributed to the declined values in Tertiary Education and pointed out the roles of counselling in promoting value re-orientation in tertiary education. This paper mentions the challenges faced by professional counsellors in promoting value re-orientation in tertiary education in Nigeria such as the lack of funds, poor salary and school environment which caused significant disruption to the regular counselling activities. The paper suggested that Counsellors in various states in Nigeria should organize moral counselling and advocacy sensitization programmes for the heads of the school, teachers, parents and the entire society. instead of leaving the concepts in their theoretical forms alone, practical efforts should be made to involve counsellors in the implementation of educational policy documents and Counsellors should group themselves in their residential states or localities to take counselling to homes, families, communities, hospitals, correctional services and so on. The paper concluded that the desired value re-orientation that we look for can only be achieved through a vibrant counselling programme and the effectiveness of counselling depends on the counsellors' efforts in various phases and should organise moral counselling, advocacy and sensitisation programmes for the heads of the school, teachers, parents and the entire society on proper awareness of counselling as a discipline.