The role of school counsellors in children’s adjustment to preschool education

Abstract

This research aims to examine the practices of school counsellors working in preschool education towards children’s school adjustment in academic, social, emotional, and behavioural dimensions. The research is a qualitative study with participants consisting of 30 school counsellors working in preschool education. The participants were determined using the criterion sampling method, which is a purposeful sampling method. The data were collected using an interview form with four questions. These data were analysed by content analysis method. It was revealed that the counsellors carried out various practices in academic, social, emotional, and behavioural areas for the adjustment of children to school. It was found that academic adjustment activities were cooperation with the family, individual guidance, and behaviour assessment. Social adjustment activities were social skills activities, group guidance, peer support, and individual guidance. Emotional adjustment activities were individual guidance and cooperation with the family. Behavioural adjustment activities were group guidance, cooperation with the family, individual guidance, school rules, and behaviour assessment.

Analysis of Civic and Political Quality of Preschool Education Curriculum Based on SWOT Analysis and Its Corresponding Strategies

“…Curriculum ideology and politics mainly refer to a specific human education system, which needs to take the group receiving instruction into consideration and, at the same time to ensure that the whole teaching process, the whole class can actively implement the ideological guidance measures to achieve the ultimate goal of parallel teaching of political theory and curriculum [1][2]. A reasonable construction of the course's ideological and political system can make the teaching content and the ideological and political elements closely integrated, conducive to improving the effect of ideological guidance, reducing the possibility of students' resistance to the psychology, achieving the goal of professional skills training and the integration of the teaching of ideological and political concepts of the lectures [3][4][5].…”