GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING AND THE CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The view held by Brundtland commission that the sustainable development implied the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs was adopted for the purpose of the paper. Education for sustainable development was discussed in relation to Guidance and Counselling and the challenges of education. The issue of what can guidance and counseling as an educational services do to arrest the problems faced by education due to globalization, changing pattern of life due to urban and rural migration. Some suggestions were put forward, for guidance to be effective as an education service to resolve the challenges education is facing for sustainable development, such as the professionalisation of guidance counseling to allow for effective and adequate performance from members. The paper concluded by asserting that guidance and counselling should be fully incoperated into the curriculum of schools for the challenges the education sector is facing to be overcomed