The Challenges of providing safe and friendly school environments-counselling implications

Abstract

The need for a conducive environment for teaching and learning to take place cannot be ignored in any educational system. This forms the basis of this paper. The paper focuses on a discussion of the challenges involved in providing safe and friendly school environment. The paper first examined the desirability of a positive educational environment in the attainment of educational objectives. Then, it specifically examined the concepts of educational environment and what constitutes safe and friendly school environment. The challenges of providing this type of school environment were also discussed. The paper caps it up with appropriate recommendations and counselling implications of evolving a safe.