Psychological Guidance and Counseling Students’ Perceptions on Student Centered Education

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of PGC (psychological guidance and counseling) students on student centered education. Cooperative and discovery learning were used as strategies and literature review, analysis, case study, discussion, reporting were used as techniques in order to facilitate the learning process as student centered. Students were asked to write weekly reflective reports as a part of their assessment. These reflective reports as well as semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tools to determine students’ perceptions on the effectiveness of student centered education. Content analysis was carried out in the form of coding categorizing and labeling the primary occurring themes. The findings have shown that applying student centered education in class have improved students cognitive and affective skills. Besides in order to apply this approach efficiently, infra-structure of the course needs to be designed accordingly and student needs must be taken into consideration.