Olusegun Adebowale

• M.A. Ed (Tests and Measurement),Ph.D. (Guidance and Counselling
• Professor (Full) at Obafemi Awolowo University

The phenomenon of bullying has been a problem in almost every school, and many factors have been attributed to someone becoming a victim of bullying. The intimidation that occurs to victims of bullying has a negative impact on many facet of their live, one of which is a decrease in academic achievement due to lack of motivation. Achievement motivat...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to stress the increasing imperativeness of counseling and psychotherapy in Nigerian universities, given the growing, strident, and persistent reports of maladaptive behaviors such as suicidal ideation and behaviors among university students.Method - The study employed the method of informed arguments to presen...

Purpose The main objective of this study is to determine the patterns of suicidal ideation among undergraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Design/methodology/approach The study examined the pattern of suicidal ideation among undergraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study adopted a...

Research suggests that protecting client's identity may be one way of helping clients on suicidal ideation seek and sustain counselling relationships. The rising spate of suicidal attempts and behaviour among students demands that practical ways of protecting the identities of such clients is getting more imperative day by day. The study investigat...

The chapter sought to analyze ways by which self-directed learning can be further advanced in higher institutions of learning. It specifically presented a conceptual clarification of self-directedness, self-directed learning, and the role of counselling with special reference to online counselling. It also provided a step-by-step guide on how onlin...

The study identified the prevalent ways by which students experience problematic use of mobile internet. It determined the level of problematic use of mobile internet experienced by the undergraduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria. It also investigated factors that may predict problematic use of mobile internet among the studen...

One major issue on the front burner of most nations today is how to survive the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring the mitigation of its spread. Several efforts have been introduced to achieve this with significant injury to the educational system. As the schools are striving to return to its normal process of helping the learners to acquire knowledge,...

The paper explores capacity building opportunities that abound in guidance and counselling in developing nations with specific reference to Nigeria. It provides a conceptual clarification of capacity building and analyzed specific areas of the Nigerian life in which greater capacity can be developed and in which skills, knowledge, tools and equipme...

With a view to providing empirical information on the factors that influence online counselling communication among Nigerian university students, this study investigated the influence of emotional intelligence and social networking skills on the effectiveness of online counselling communication among students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). Th...

The study examined the influence of anonymity and mutual disclosure on trust in online counselling relationships in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised undergraduate and postgraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, N...

The study examined the prevalent types of study habit observable among the undergraduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Osun state. It also investigated possible association between study habits and demographic variables like sex, age and level in the university with the view to providing useful information that could guide university...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to examine the attitudes of prison inmates and warders (prison staff) to rehabilitative counselling and its relationship to their prison status on one hand and their educational attainment on the other. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopts a descriptive survey research design. In all 123 prison inm...

An online guidance and counselling services was established at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in December, 2010. This study was designed to examine the undergraduates' disposition to the online counselling services after 24 months. It also investigated the prevalent disposition, dispositional types and distribution of students across the type...

The study sought to find out the relative effectiveness of three classroom interaction strategies which are known to affect students' learning outcomes in Mathematics. 484 senior secondary school three (SSSIII) students randomly selected through judgmental and stratified random sampling from government-owned secondary schools in Ikere and Ado-Ekiti...

Intimacy is very crucial to the success of any therapeutic relationship. In a counselling relationship, disclosure has been found to be a cornerstone for the relationship to be effective and for self-disclosure to be achieved. In counselling there should be trust, intimacy, and effective relational communication. Intimate relationships can only occ...

Though there is a wide range of educational methodology practiced around the world, guidance and counseling must adapt to whatever conditions support educational practices, and Web technology is an exceedingly important tool in educational guidance support. Online Guidance and Counseling: Toward Effectively Applying Technology offers a collection o...

This study examines the level of teachers’ awareness of learning disabilities among primary school learners, the teachers’ attitude to pupils possessing such d disabilities and strategies adopted by the teachers in ensuring that the pupil still obtain the requisite knowledge s/he is billed to imbibe. One hundred teachers were randomly selected from...

To ensure an effective transformative learning, the concept of self and personal identity is a germane concept that needs the attention of researchers and other stakeholders. This chapter gives a clear expose of the concept of self or personal identity, it representation in an online interaction (online identity), how people manage their online ide...

The chapter examines the concept of injustice with special reference to its occurrence online. It also focuses on poverty as economic deprivation and fear together with injustice as essential components of vicious circle which may seriously impact transformative education, noting that transformative education is basically focussed at imbibing value...

This study examines the methods adopted by teachers in the implementation of the provisions of a continuous assessment policy in Ondo State in Nigeria. Data were collected from teachers selected randomly from all schools in two non-cosmopolitan Local Government Education Authorities of the state and were analyzed using simple percentages, t-test, a...