PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE GUIDANCE IN EDUCATION

Abstract

The study investigated preventive and curative guidance in education. Specifically, it ascertained the relationship among education, guidance, and counselling; explored the disparities and similarities between preventive and curative guidance in education, the aims and objectives of preventive and curative guidance programme, the pivotal principles upon which preventive and curative school guidance revolves, and the channels of reaching students with preventive and curative guidance in education. Finally, it explored composition of effective school guidance team. Being qualitative in approach, the study employed ex post facto, and reviewed extant literature to achieve the objectives of the study. Six research questions guided the study. It was found that mutually complementary relationship exists among education, guidance, and counselling in education; though disparities exist in preventive and curative guidance in education even as the services overlap; the aims and objectives of preventive and curative guidance in education is to assist students weaken or remove obstacles in their trajectories toward self-actualisation; and creative channels for enlisting students into preventive and curative guidance education are institutionalisation of guidance and counselling services in schools, use of group guidance and group counselling, use of Counselling Bullettin Board, among other findings. Appropriate recommendations were made.