The importance of a student profile in an accountable open learning student counselling model
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1999-10
Authors
Beneke, Paul
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University of the Free State (South Campus)
Abstract
Student support and the counselling of open and distance learners is an area of potential
growth. It attempts to emphasise that each individual student should be recognised as a human
being, by drawing attention to the multiplicity of factors which impinge on the academic
success of the student. It is argued that in distance learning counselling this can only be
achieved by the construction of student profiles.
The study explores current practices and shortcomings before the dissertation demonstrates the
essential information required by the counsellor in providing counselling to a student removed
in space and time by means of a detailed report on longitudinal qualitative and quantitative
research.
The dissertation also presents some existing models and explores common factors, and
indicates current shortcomings in counselling practice. A combination of all the information
gathered, provides the researcher with insights to identify the specific elements of a new
model. The model then presented as an outcome of this study is constructed in such a way
that it contains all the structural elements while simultaneously representing the dynamic,
adaptable nature required by this complex situation. The dissertation concludes that the
adoption and application of such a model will have far reaching implications for distance
learning institutions and provides a number of recommendations for such implementation.
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Student profile, Student support, Student counselling, Open and distance learning, Tertiary distance education in South Africa, Research in distance learning counselling, Profile questionnaires, Shortcomings in student counselling, A counselling model, Counseling in higher education -- South Africa, Dissertation (M.Ed. (Postgraduate Education))--University of the Free State, 1999