Students’ Pedagogical Counselling in the Science Learning Context

摘要

In the current context, where school faces a multitude of psychosocial issues, the pedagogical counselling activities have become an indispensable prerequisite, related to almost every aspect of the educational system or learning process. Starting from the premise that one of the fundamental tasks of the pedagogical/school counselling work is offered by providing students with a range of effective learning techniques, in this study we intend to customize this aspect, taking into account the training approach developed within Science disciplines. As such, the purpose of this study is to capture the impact that the pedagogical counselling process has on the optimization of the learning activities related to Science area (Chemistry, Physics and Biology). Thus, we undertook an investigative approach, from a sample of over 1.000 Romanian secondary school students, as indirect beneficiaries of the teacher training programme “ PROFILES - Education through Sciences ”. The questionnaire administered to those students envisaged a number of issues concerning: the attractiveness of the Science lessons, their impact on the affective, behavioural and learning style, valorisation of their effectiveness in efficient instructional models, the importance of the lessons from the perspective of determining their skills for everyday life, specific pedagogical relations that are structured in such teaching approaches, etc. The data processed from the questionnaires, correlated with the results gathered from the focus group discussions, allowed us to formulate pertinent conclusions regarding the facilitator role of the school counselling activities, in terms of learning management disciplines within the specific Science content.