Guidance & Counselling

VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS BY TERESIAH NJAMBI BIU SYNOPSIS Violence in schools is a problem that keeps recurring in our schools in Kenya; and the worst case scenario was in 2008 shortly after the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence, when in June alone that year 300 strikes were reported which was an average of 10 schools per day compared to 2 schools per day the previous year. It is against this background that the author of this book Violence in Schools investigates the causes that may have given rise to this violence. In addition to this, the author sheds some light on potential solutions to this problem; outlining what the various stakeholders: parents, teachers, school principals, the Ministry of Education, Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), Leaders: Political, Religious and Social-Economic Class, The Media, The Courts of Law, The Government, The Young People and All Kenyans of Good Will can do to ensure that this problem is eradicated once and for all. She also demonstrates how Guidance and Counselling Department, if well implemented in schools, can help them deal with this problem of violence in schools; and more importantly, embrace The Students’ Based Family Programme which can help the students deal with the challenges they encounter in life, thereby reducing the chances of others preying on them making them possible tools of meting out violence on other students.