This qualitative study is an attempt to develop our knowledge on using the back-channels in English conversations as a secondlanguage obtaining English language textbooks for Iranian school students through the old and new educational system. The textbook ofsecond guidance school grade has been compared with seventh juniorhigh school grade (as the frst group), and the textbook...

This study sought to determine the guidance and counselling services which Social Science students in one Government-owned university in Zimbabwe had received in high school and the guidance and counselling services that they desired upon entry into university. Variations in services received in high school and those desired at university were by school type of the respondents. More specificall...

and educational approach called Effective School Improvement (ESI) is coming forth whose objective is the increase in the quality of education by improving the efficacy of the Centres (Muñoz-Repiso & Murillo, 2003; Thrupp, 1999). This increase in quality, following Negro (2006), has as its closest references “the movement of school efficacy”, which pays special attention to the atmosphere, scho...

Pre anc* to which not far short of 500 children of J wSCh?01 or school age were referred last year. jn as dissatisfied with the task of acting merely Ca a first aid capacity relegated to picking up has es, anc* t^s' I trust healthy, dissatisfaction SlJ encouraged me to put forward here some hafesti?ns not only as to where things appear to as t6 ?one wrong but also, with less certainty, j0 how t...

This article discusses three articles on the development of school guidance and counseling in an international context. The development of school guidance work as well as issues that arose in two Asian countries, Japan and South Korea, are presented by Yagi (2008) and Lee and Yang (2008) whereas Gysbers (2008) presents the rationale, practice, and results of the implementation of individual stu...