THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR AND MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY AWARENESS IN THE VOLTA REGION OF GHANA

Sedem Nunyuia Amedome

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School counselors are ideally suited to implement multicultural education in their schools, considering the fact that they are experts on mental health, interpersonal relations, conflict resolution, behavior and attitude change, and human development. This study set out to find out the relationship between school counselors’ multicultural knowledge and awareness and their self-reported demographic information (Gender, educational degree, number of years of counseling experience, practice setting, counseling experience with culturally diverse clients). Using a cross-sectional survey design the study investigated 60 counselors’ multicultural diversity knowledge and awareness in the domains of self-awareness, knowledge, skills, and their self-reported demographic characteristics using a standardized questionnaire. Both the simple random sampling and the purposive sampling techniques we used and the data were analyzed using SPSS. Though gender and age did not show any significant relationship with the counselors’ multicultural diversity knowledge and awareness, the number of years of working experience and the number of multicultural counseling courses a counselor took reported some relationship. The results and their implications are reported below for further consideration


Keywords


multicultural diversity; multicultural awareness; school counselor

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