Guidance

GUIDANCE

WHAT IS GUIDANCE

• DIRECT

• PILOT

• MANAGE

• STEER‘

GUIDE

Arthur Jones “Guidance is a personal help

that is designed to assist a

person to go somewhere and do something”.

Emery Stoops “Guidance is the continuous process of helping individual to develop the maximum of his capacity in the direction of most beneficial to himself and to society”.

NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GUIDANCE

I. EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Guidance as an Instrument for the Qualitative

Improvement Education

Expanding Educational Objectives

Solution of Educational Problems

Solving Discipline Problems

II. VOCATIONAL NEEDS

• Vocationalisation of Education and Guidance

• Guidance as an Instrument of National

Development

• Expanding Complexity of the World of Work

•

Increasing need for Man-power Planning

and Utilization

Occupational Awareness

Changes in the Conditions of Industry and

Labour

III. PERSONAL / PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS

Guidance is the Basic Need of Man

Educational and Social Aspirations

Psychological Problems

Satisfactory Adjustment

Proper Development of Personality

IV. SOCIAL NEEDS

Complex Nature of Society

Changed Family Contexts

Explosion of Population and Expansion in Human

Resources

Political Change and Extension of Democracy

Change in the Concept of Education

EDUCATIONAL

VOCATIONAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL

SOCIAL

OBJECTIVES OF GUIDANCE

• To help individual to understand and accept the

positive and negative aspects of his personality,

interests, aptitudes, attitudes etc.

• Provide a wide choice and opportunities

• Help make adjustment in the new life situation.

• Help in facing the challenges of life and manage tensions by realizing and accepting the facts.

• Help in solving social and personal problems and be able to adjust with oneself and the environment.

AIMS OF GUIDANCE

• Exploring Self

• Determining Values

• Setting Goals

• Improving Efficiency

• Building Relationship

• Accepting Responsibility for the Future

PURPOSE OF GUIDANCE

• To enable the individual or person to be matured, socially responsible, economically self-sufficient and ultimately to be self-directing citizen, for that necessary programmes are undertaken for his best development.

• It enables the individual/person to take right decision in each and every stage of his life by overcoming the necessities and incorporating the necessities.

To achieve of self-sufficiency in each and every aspects

of life, the individual/person is helped to analyze his

self clearly i.e. his strength, limitation, interests,

aptitudes, abilities, potentialities etc.

Guidance is organized with the help of different

services to provide realistic information about

potentialities of the individual and the opening of the

world of work in which he is best fitted for.

NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF GUIDANCE

It is a Process

It is a Continuous Process

It is apart from Instruction

Guidance is a process of Development rather than

Direction

Guidance fulfills some aims of Education

BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF GUIDANCE

Race, colour and sex have little as no relation

to aptitude and abilities.

Many crises cannot be successfully met by

student without assistance.

The school is in a strategic position to give the

assistance needed.

• Variations within the individual are

significant.

• Abilities already existing in individual are

not usually specialized

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GUIDANCE

• Principle of All-Round Development of the Individual

• Principle of Human Uniqueness

• Principle of Holistic Development

• Principle of Cooperation

• Principle of Continuity

• Principle of Adjustment

• Principle of Individual Needs

• Principle of Expert Opinion

• Principle of Evaluation

• Principle of Responsibility

• Principle of Periodic Appraisal

• The focus of guidance is the individual and not his

problem.

• Guidance is not a direction. At the same time, it is

not thrusting somebody’s views on others. Guidance

is also not taking decisions for others. Guidance is, in

fact, an integrated, organized and creative process.

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• Chand,S.(2008). Guidance and Counselling. New Delhi: Rajendra Ravindra Pvt.Ltd.

• Chandra,S, & Rao,R.(2006). Educational Psychology Evaluation & Statistics. Meerut: Raj Printers.

• Kinra, K. (2008). Guidance and Counselling. Noida: Dorling Kindersley Pvt.Ltd.