Study on Professionalization of Taiwan’s Elementary school Counselor System(1991 - 2013): A Historical Instiutionalism Perspective
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Tsai, Yi-Chieh
Abstract
This research adopted an approach of historical institutionalism to investigate professionalization of counseling staff in elementary schools from 1991 to 2013. The six-year counseling program carried out in 1991 was to develop counseling professionals as well as provide workshops for educators. The teaching, discipline and consultation (3 in 1) experiment program promoted by the Ministry of Education in 1998 was designed to help teachers develop counseling knowledge and abilities and to encourage them to engage in voluntary counseling. The student counseling bill proposed by the Ministry of Education in 2013 aimed to professionalize counseling practitioners.
From the perspective of historical institutionalism, the current research analyzed the effects of sequence of contingent events on the institution. The events evolved into a turning point as a result of the efforts of actors and their mutual influences, driving decision makers to enact specific policies, which in turn alter the institution. The research method in the current study includes a review of related documents and in-person interviews with actors. The data from the interviews provided more in-depth understanding about the processes of the incidents and the motives behind the actions.
The current research revealed that the institution of counseling is subject to the influence of external environments. However, a major weakness associated with the institution of counseling arose while it failed to respond the external changes. The alteration in the institution resulted from the incidents initiated by some actors. As for the student counseling bill, the current research raised three propositions: (1) increase staffing for full-time school counselors; (2) encourage school counselors to acquire the
counseling psychology certificate; (3) establish well-designed procedures of selection,training and development, and evaluation in order to attain the effectiveness of counseling.
Subjects
歷史制度論
學生輔導法
輔導專業化
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-103-P00341020-1.pdf
Size
23.54 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):f8756948c72a6beeb8a6d1bb44e29f31