{"title":"Career guidance and counselling: the nature and types of career-related teacher social support in Hong Kong secondary schools","authors":"Lawrence P. W. Wong, Mantak Yuen, Gaowei Chen","doi":"10.1080/03069885.2022.2040005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We explored Chinese adolescents’ perceptions of the types of career-related teacher support they had experienced and found helpful. Four focus group discussions were conducted with 30 15–18-year-old high school students in Hong Kong, China. Students perceived the most helpful forms of teacher support for career planning to be those that related to emotional connectedness, information resourcefulness, accessibility, and encouragement of student autonomy. The group discussions also indicated that any support from teachers that helped with stress relief was a very important type of teacher support under the exam-driven teaching culture in Hong Kong. Implications of these findings include enhancing the quality of teacher support in secondary schools.","PeriodicalId":9352,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Guidance & Counselling","volume":"69 1","pages":"897 - 915"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Journal of Guidance & Counselling","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2022.2040005","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT We explored Chinese adolescents’ perceptions of the types of career-related teacher support they had experienced and found helpful. Four focus group discussions were conducted with 30 15–18-year-old high school students in Hong Kong, China. Students perceived the most helpful forms of teacher support for career planning to be those that related to emotional connectedness, information resourcefulness, accessibility, and encouragement of student autonomy. The group discussions also indicated that any support from teachers that helped with stress relief was a very important type of teacher support under the exam-driven teaching culture in Hong Kong. Implications of these findings include enhancing the quality of teacher support in secondary schools.
期刊介绍:
The British Journal of Guidance & Counselling exists to communicate theoretical and practical writing of high quality in the guidance and counselling field. It is addressed to an international, interdisciplinary audience and welcomes submissions dealing with diverse theoretical orientations from practitioners and researchers from around the world. It is concerned to promote the following areas: •the theory and practice of guidance and counselling •the provision of guidance and counselling services •training and professional issues