Bachelor of Education Honours in Guidance and Counselling
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Purpose and Rationale
Purpose:
The Bachelor of Education Honours in Guidance and Counselling is the first postgraduate qualification in education. The qualification aims to prepare learners for research-based postgraduate studies in Guidance and Counselling. It serves to consolidate and deepen a learner's knowledge of Guidance and Counselling and to develop research capacity in its methodology and techniques. The curriculum includes modules on theories of Guidance and Counselling, research methods, and a research project. It requires learners to develop theoretical engagement and intellectual independence in research with the support of qualified academic staff.
The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 8 Exit Level Outcomes for the qualification include:
- Preparing learners for research knowledge and skills for further postgraduate studies.
- Consolidating specialized and theoretical knowledge in Guidance and Counselling.
- Developing research capacity in the methodology and techniques of Guidance and Counselling.
- Providing learners with a high level of academic engagement and intellectual enhancement in Guidance and Counselling.
The qualification enables learners to conduct and report on research under supervision, meet national requirements for NQF Level 8, and consolidate knowledge in Guidance and Counselling.
Rationale:
South Africa and the Southern African region require highly qualified and professionally grounded educators in both essential and higher education sectors. The qualification offers an opportunity for learners to enhance their research knowledge and skills in Guidance and Counselling to address various challenges requiring counseling services. Schools in South Africa lack professional counselors, leading to issues like bullying, bereavements, violence, and career guidance going unaddressed.
Graduates of this qualification can proceed to Masters and Doctoral studies, contributing to research capacity in higher education and fulfilling societal needs. They will serve as educators, educational analysts, school counselors, Heads of Department, and school managers, making valuable contributions to society.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge to enable engagement with and critique of current literature on practices in the field, discipline or practice of guidance and counselling.
- Use a wide range of specialised skills in identifying, conceptualising, designing and implementing methods of enquiry to address complex and challenging problems within a field, discipline or practise### and an understanding of the consequences of any solutions or insights generated within a specific context.
- Design and implement a strategy for the processing and management of information, to conduct a comprehensive review of leading and current research in an area of specialisation to produce significant insights.
- Use the resources of academic and professional or occupational discourses to communicate and defend substantial ideas that are the products of research or development in an area of specialisation### and use a range of advanced and specialised skills and discourses appropriate to a field, discipline or practice, to communicate with a variety of audiences with different levels of knowledge or expertise.
- Develop his or her learning strategies, which sustain independent learning and academic or professional development### and can interact effectively within the teaching or professional group as a means of enhancing knowledge.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Identify relevant and appropriate terminologies in Guidance and Counselling.
- Identify the scope of knowledge in Guidance and Counselling.
- Explain knowledge of current arguments and views on guidance and counselling.
- Conceptualise current literature on the broad field of Guidance and Counselling.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Critique abstract landscape in Guidance and Counselling to practical settings.
- Apply specialised knowledge of guidance and counselling to different educational settings such as challenges that educators and learners face, mainly where one teaches.
- Justify arguments using specialised knowledge in the field of guidance and counselling and arguments that provide situations to education stakeholders.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Identify a research problem and topic in the area of guidance and counselling.
- Design a logical research proposal that relates to the application of guidance and counselling to research problems.
- Develop research objectives that utilise knowledge of guidance and counselling.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Identify characteristics of a suitable interviewing atmosphere and environment within parameters of guidance and counselling for use in research.
- Identify and use of research instruments relevant for research in guidance and counselling.
- Explain and justify the methodological approaches on a chosen research project on guidance and advice.
- Report and explain research approach or process and findings and disseminate research knowledge in a logically structured manner in a written form.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Read researches such as journals, e-books, other research findings and present a logical argument from own research for compiling a valid research argument into a mini-dissertation.
- Communicate research findings into a mini-dissertation using a given format, to nominated examiners in the field of guidance and counselling.
- Understand the comments of examiners and satisfactorily correct mini- dissertation with minimum support from supervisors.
Integrated Assessment:
- Assessment is as an integral part of teaching and learning.
- Formative coursework includes at least two tests and two assignments, one of which is in groups and presented and discussed in class.
- Research project will be assessed internally and externally by nominated and approved academic experts.
Formative and Summative Assessment:
- Formative assessments provide feedback on teaching and learning.
- Summative assessment provides final judgement on student performance.
- Internal assessment comprises tests, assignments, and oral presentations.
- Final mark per module will be awarded based on University policy (50% for formative assessment and 50% for final summative assessment or written exam mark).
- Exception for the research project, which serves as the final summative assessment.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Honours Degree
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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