Students Advice Each Other in the Subject «Educational Choices»: A Qualitative Study on Tenth Graders Perceptions, Experiences and Reflections in an Advisory Project, 2018

Education should facilitate the development of reflection and competence in order to make good (educational) choices right now and in a lifetime perspective. Through learning counselling and counselling each other, the students identified and evaluated situations, wishes, challenges and possibilities together. This was set against theories on identity forming, reflexivity and life design. The thesis question was: Which experience based reflections are created among students in 10th grade when they counsel each other in the subject “educational choices”? The research question is based on the process: How do the students experience the practice of selected techniques and tools for counselling? How do the student experience counselling and being counselled by their fellow students? To what degree do the students experience changing their point of view in relation to their choice of education? To what degree do the students experience development and usefulness?