The Need of Educational Counselling in the Early Childhood Education to Optimize the School Adaptation Process
The Need of Educational Counselling in the Early Childhood Education to Optimize the School Adaptation Process

Author(s): Gianina-Ana Massari, Alina-Elena Vasilescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Counselling; early childhood; education; school adaptation
Summary/Abstract: Counselling activities involve a formative educational approach oriented towards the most out of the skills and abilities to adapt through evolutionary change. The goals of the educational counselling are differentiated by problems and age of the pupils. The fundamental question of our research is focused on the presence need of the school counselor in the area of early childhood education. This study represents a qualitative analysis of responses, revelead from focus groups, that has been targeted the perception of kindergarten and primary school teachers on the need of educational counselling for school adaptation process. The research objectives were aimed at identifying categories of problems facing teachers in kindergarten and primary school to enhance the school adaptation by implementing strategies of school counselling and making an inventory of the problems to train the children for school adaptation during the kindergarten and preparatory class process. Our group of subjects was represented by 52 teachers from Iasi, Neamt, Vaslui and Botosani. From the perspective of the inventory problems that require the intervention of a school counselor, at the end of this study we have structured several categories of problems that need the intervention through counselling and we have recommended several counseling strategies to optimize the school adaptation process.

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