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Education, Support and the Development of the Whole Person
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Best, Ron – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
This issue of the journal brings together six educationalists with distinctive concerns about the range and quality of support needed and given to children and young people who experience difficulties in managing school or college. Their foci are very different: the "impact of fathers" (present or absent) on the young person's attitude…
Descriptors: Individual Development, National Curriculum, Holistic Approach, Elementary Secondary Education
The National Curriculum: The Manufacture of Pigs' Ears from Best Silk.
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McGuiness, John – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1993
The English National Curriculum values and promotes the concept of challenge, but appears not to understand the prior need for psychological safety. Guidance and counseling skills can help teachers in their attempts to establish those zones of safety from which all pupils will reach out to the challenge of learning. (JPS)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Counselling, Careers Education and Pastoral Care: Beyond the National Curriculum.
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Robson, Maggie; Cohen, Norah; McGuiness, John – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1999
Recent educational reforms in the United Kingdom have had the effect of compartmentalizing children's education into measurable outcomes (usually academic) and of undervaluing its socioemotional aspects. Introduces a symposium presenting different views of the implications of these reforms. Encourages all professionals involved in education to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors
Counselling, Counselling Skills and Encouraging Pupils To Talk: Clarifying and Addressing Confusion.
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Lang, Peter – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1999
Outlines the context in which counseling operates in schools. Discusses issues that arise from the location of counseling skills and practice of counseling in the framework of pastoral care and education, both from historical perspective and current educational climate. Considers ways in which counseling and counseling skills might be more…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Elementary Secondary Education
The Impact on Pastoral Care of Structural, Organisational and Statutory Changes in Schooling: Some Empirical Evidence and a Discussion.
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Best, Ron – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1999
Reports on the questionnaire results of National Association for Pastoral Care in Education (NAPCE). Five hypotheses are generated concerning likely effects of the 1988 Education Reform Act, National Curriculum, and other educational developments. Impact on pastoral care and personal and social education after a decade of educational-policy change…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Holistic Approach, Management Systems, National Curriculum
Personal-Social Education: Beyond the National Curriculum.
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Watkins, Chris – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1999
Reports on the analysis of the impact of the first 10 years of the National Curriculum in England and Wales on personal-social education (PSE). Proposes that many indirect processes have led to PSE having a lesser place in schools. The analysis offers some broad pointers for improvement. Identifies conception of improved PSE for 21st-century…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Culturally Relevant Education, Learning Theories, National Curriculum