Abstract
M.Ed.
To the classroom teacher educational opportunities occur mainly
during teaching with an added burden during extra-mural activities.
Apart from the formal education the teacher often encounters
informal situations during which pupils need guidance in order to
master life-skills.
During and after the training of teachers the perception is
established that an intellectually well-trained educator will also
be capable of teaching the necessary life-skills to pupils in need
of such skills.
The aim of this dissertation 1S to establish the need for
interviewing skills by teachers and to point out that pupils are in
desperate need to be educated by better equipped teachers.
Since interviewing or counsell ing is considered the domain of
psycho-therapists in our country, teachers are not being trained to
apply this basic skill in order to enable the pupils to help
themselves.
The basic
and those
discussed
interviews
interviews
requirements for successful interviews were researched
applicable to the school educational situation are
in this dissertation. Parameters for successful
are mentioned and a framework for the general form of
is included.
The skills which are referred to in this dissertation can serve
teachers to become more effective in their endeavour to enable
pupils to help themselves. Students and practitioners of education
should gain informal effectiveness by mastering and applying these
skills.