Re-definitions of pastoral care from the perspective of sixth-form students

Abstract

What are the needs of students at sixthform level and how are they being or not being met? To throw light on this question Elizabeth Tham investigated the expectations and needs of students and their perceptions of the pastoral care service within a sixth-form college with a high degree of commitment to a caring ethos. While the results indicate that students and teachers interacted well on the emotional-social level, academic, developmental and environmental needs were not satisfactorily met. The writer draws some important conclusions from her investigation and these have significance not just for the college in question, but for Our view of the relationship between pastoral care and effective learning in general. @ 1992 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.