Application of Vocational Development Theory in Rebranding Choice of Careers among Nigerian Secondary School Students

Abstract

The paper discusses the role of counseling for cultivating impactful pedagogy for sustainable education in northern Nigeria. It gives information about northern Nigeria and the nature of its education and also how the region struggles to overcome its problem to achieve what it does in that respect. Education is an important key of achieving a sustainable national development, for a state or society to achieve a sustainable national development, thus the quality of its education should be improved. This paper explains to explain the concept of education, the concept of Pedagogy, the concept of counseling and the concept of sustainable national development. The paper provides an insight into various challenges confronting education in Nigeria such as gender inequality in education, dearth of teachers, inadequate infrastructures, overcrowded classrooms etc. It finally suggested ways for counseling on how to solve challenges confronting education in northern Nigeria. This is done through creation of conducive atmosphere for learning, allocation of enough funds for educational development, discouraging gender disparity in education by an enlightenment programme, setting up a trustworthy committee that will manage and supervise education etc.