Authors : Braah Tarabey

Volume/Issue : Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 5 - May

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8351009

Abstract : In Israel, school counseling was originally incorporated into the curriculum in the 1960s. The primary responsibilities of the school counselor in Israel are counseling, consultation,coordination, and execution of guidance programs (Nations, 2020). These responsibilitieswere directly taken from the rationale and purpose of the school counseling program as it was published in the 1960s by the "American School Counselling Association" and the "American Personnel and Guidance Association." Two decades after the program's inception, the first school counselors to be employed in the Arab educational system in Israel started to show up at the beginning of the 1980s.School counselors impact how well Arab students are integrated into higher education. Interventions in higher education also aim to support and inform Arab students to help them make informed decisions regarding their personal, higher education integration, andsocial lives (Easterbrook & Hadden, 2020). Thus, this study aimed to ascertain whether the school counselor's function has any bearing on student success and to assist Arab students who wish to enroll in higher education in Israel. The study used a mixed-methodsapproach to find answers to the following questions: What specific role does the school counselor play in helping Arab students in Israel integrate into higher education? Also, isthere any real impact on the role played by school counselors in the integration of Arab students into higher education? The study's findings revealed that students overwhelmingly agreed that the school counselor's contributions to integrating Arab students into higher education in Israel included higher education guidance and counseling, higher education career goal identification, the organization of higher education career days and conferences, and administration of the occupational interest inventory. Additionally, Arab students asserted that the school counselor's roles affect their higher education career decisions. Additionally, there was a favorable relationship between the counselor's function and how it affected Arab students' college integration. To promote Arab students' absorption into higher education, it is advised that frequent intervention activities be offered.

Keywords : School Counselor, Higher Education Students, Occupational Interest, Higher Education Choice, Higher Education Guidance, Arab Students, Israel.