GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SECONDARY IN KENYA

Abstract

This study attempts to examine the possibilities of organizing guiding and counseling services in secondary schools in Kenya. This is because since the abolition of corporal punishment, teachers were left with no alternatives since the void created has not been filled. The subject used in this research consisted of thirty randomly selected teachers from 30 secondary schools in Kenya. Questionnaires were designed to correct data on the effects and uses of corporal punishment as well as to elicit the need of guidance and counseling services in schools. It was hypothesized that there is no relationship between the administration of corporal punishment and guidance and counseling services. The descriptive methods and the table analysis of the data significantly indicated that 85% of the teacher’s preferred guidance and counseling services than the administration of corporal punishment. It is therefore recommended that guidance and counseling services be implemented in every Kenyan secondary school.