Beschreibung
This book explores the community and parental influence on senior high school students choice of career in the Ga West Municipal. In this study the researcher used a mixed method explanatory sequential design. The chapter is based on data collected from sixty (60) teachers, fifty (50) parents and ninety (90) students (totally two hundred respondents) in Ga West Municipal in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study found out that students consider their own interest, intellectual abilities, parents advice, friends/peers career choice, individual value, societal perception, teachers advice, occupation of parents among others, when making career decisions. The study also found out that parents aspiration of career achievement, parents norms, values and expectations, parents support in provision of basic needs, parents level of education, parent- child relationship, parental occupation, parents involvement in school work, prestige and recognition influence senior high school students at Ga West Municipal choice of career. The study recommended that career education should begin at the early stages when the student enters junior high school.
Autorenporträt
Justice Ampofo Agyei holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Real Estate (University of Development Studies, Tamale, 2014) and a Degree in Post Graduate Diploma in Education (University of Education, Winneba, 2017). Justice is currently the Manager of Justice Research Consultancy.
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