Die effek van 'n beroepsvoorligtingsprogram op die loopbaanvolwassenheid van leerders van histories-benadeelde gemeenskappe in Suid-Afrika

[摘要] Learners in historical disadvantaged communities in South Africa are not taught enough about, orprepared for careers and are career immature. The study tests the effect of career counseling programson the career maturity of these learners. A career-counselling program was presented as an interventionto grade 10 learners from a school in a historically disadvantaged community. Career maturity wasmeasured before and after the intervention by using the Career Development Questionnaire. Theprogramme incorporated aspects of knowledge of one self, knowledge of careers, the integration ofthese two aspects and career planning. The differences between the pretest and posttest scores wereanalysed to determine if the intervention was successful in improving career maturity. Eighty-onesubjects were used in the study, 46 making up the experimental group and 35 subjects used as controlgroup. The experimental group received the intervention, while the control group continued going toschool counselling classes which did not include any career guidance. Subjects in the experimentalgroup completed Meyer-interest questionnaires and questionnaires on values and abilities. They alsocompleted an additional questionnaire which was drawn up by the researcher. The results showed thatthere was no difference between the pretest and posttest scores. A pilot study was conducted todetermine whether an individual approach to career counselling would have a better effect on theselearners. Five learners were tested in a similar way, but the intervention they received was presentedindividually. Results showed an increase, although insignificant, in the career maturity scores of thesubjects. The conclusion that was drawn is that an individual approach to career counseling may be thesolution to the low career maturity among learners from historical disadvantaged communities, and thatthis kind of approach should be incorporated into the school counseling syllabus. Further researchshould be done in this area.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University