Introduction
The desire for a positive evaluation of parents, or class size, overlooking one of
self affects a person's feelings, actions, and the most crucial change agents - the stuaspirations
throughout life. School expe- dents. All of this is contrary to the peer
riences play an important role in the principle, which believes that deep, lasting
development of self-perceptions in the changes, individually and structurally, must
course of childhood and adolescence and ultimately come from sharing with like
this can have powerful long-term effects on individuals.
an individual's self concept; yet most pro- The effectiveness of the use of peer
posals for school improvement and reform counsellors within the school system has
emphasize either teachers, administrators, been well documented in foreign literature