E-Counselling Implementation: Consideration During the Covid-19 Deepen Crisis in Nigeria

Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic is and remain a major problem experienced around the world. This paper investigates E-counselling implementation consideration during the Covid-19 deepen crisis in Nigeria. School closures due to coronavirus (COVID-19) are affecting learners/clients worldwide. Therefore, the thriving concept of this paper is to ensure that the temporary measures of e-counselling benefits both learners/clients in rural and urban area and not to create inequality in the Education system in Nigeria. The paper identifies online counselling, WhatsApp, SMS message, radio, television, e-mails, internet as medium of e-counselling and to maintaining good inter-personal communications among others as significant factors that will help to bridge the gap between learners/clients in rural and urban area. The roles of stakeholders is to facilitate measures that is all encompassing that will motivate counsellors, teachers and others in exploring new online curricula modalities as a temporary measures to facilitate and promote e-counselling among others. Thus, the challenges of e-counselling facing Nigeria learners needs a collaborative effort in ameliorating their plight. Hence, this paper discusses the meaning of e-counselling, the concept of Covid-19 and e-counselling, Covid-19 crisis and Counselling, Covid-19 and technology in counselling, roles of stakeholders and effective implementation of e-counselling during the Covid-19deepen crisis, factors that will aid e-counselling, and the general e-counselling process in Nigeria Education.

Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic, Deepen, Crisis, and Nigeria E-counselling System.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-17-02

Publication date:June 30th 2020