THE ROLE OF COUNSELLING IN PROMOTING POSITIVE ATTITUDINAL CHANGE THROUGH TEACHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA *
1 Department of Educational Foundations, Kwara State College of Education (Technical), Lafiagi
2 Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
* Corresponding author: bshakirudeen@yahoo.com
2 Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
* Corresponding author: bshakirudeen@yahoo.com
Abstract
Nigeria is in Africa not only for her richness and abundance of resources, nor is it for her population/economicadvancement, nor her ability to live together for so long despite the diversity, but for the attitude and imagescreated by Nigerians living abroad and those within. Despite the abundant human and material resourcesavailable to the country, many are still wallowing in abject poverty and deprivation. Attitude is a way ofthinking or feeling about something. Many Nigerians have lost their dignity and integrity; corruption and othersocial vices have eluded the country; value for money, power and materialism are the order of the day. Theattitude of Nigerians has gone so badly that issues of corruption, money laundering, kidnapping, religiousintolerance, and value change have arisen. Have become the new normal and form part of the attitudes thatrequire adjustment among Nigerians. However, the policies put in place by the government at different timeshave yielded no significant success because they were not well channelled. Hence, the a need for counsellingintervention through teacher education. This study focused on and discussed concepts such as counselling,goals and scope of guidance and counselling, building the right attitude through education, teacher educationin contemporary society, the purpose of teacher education in Nigeria and the place of guidance and counsellingin teacher education. It was concluded that teacher education should be strengthened to produce better teacherswho are morally up to the task, and to have a better product out of teacher training institutions. The role ofcounsellors in schools and guidance and counselling services cannot be overemphasised. It was, however,suggested among others that education should be made functional at all levels.
Keywords
Guidance
Counselling
Society
Attitude
Positive Attitudinal Change
Teacher Education.
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How to Cite
BUHARI, S. A., Adisa, S. A., & IBRAHIM, B. B. (2025). THE ROLE OF COUNSELLING IN PROMOTING POSITIVE ATTITUDINAL CHANGE THROUGH TEACHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA *. Journal of Educational Research and Development, 20(2), 113-119.
S. A. BUHARI, S. A. Adisa, and B. B. IBRAHIM, "THE ROLE OF COUNSELLING IN PROMOTING POSITIVE ATTITUDINAL CHANGE THROUGH TEACHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA *," Journal of Educational Research and Development, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 113-119, December 2025.
