EDU 12 GUIDANCE

 

EDU 12: LEARNER IN THE EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE

 

GUIDANCE

• Jone: “Guidance is the help given by one person to another in making choices and adjustments and in solving problems”

• Secondary Education Commission, 1954 (India):

“Guidance involves the difficult art of helping boys and girls to plan their own future wisely in the full light of all the factors that can be mastered about themselves and about the world in which they are to live and work.”

• Nature and Characteristics of guidance:

  -Promotion of the growth of the individual in self-direction

  -Helping the individual in affecting changes in him

  -Helping the individual himself through his own efforts

  -Assisting an individual to find his place

  -Helping the individual to establish harmonious relationships

  -Assisting the individual adjusts himself

  -Helping the individual to make appropriate educational, vocational and personal choice

  -It is organised

  -It has a structure, system and personnel

  -It consists of specialised services testing, counselling, educational and vocational, information, placement and follow up

  -It is an integral part of the school system

  -It helps an individual to identify and develop his potentialities and talents

  -It is a point of view that includes a positive attitude towards children

• Need of guidance:

  -Complex nature of society

  -Individual differences

  -Changed agricultural commercial and industrial patterns of the country

  -Changed occupational pattern of the country

  -Changed occupational structure

  -Changed educational pattern of the country

  -Need for conservation of human energy

  -Vocationalisation of education

  -New researches in educational psychology

  -More leisure and the need for its proper utilisation

  -Impact of electronic mass media

  -Impact of press media

  -Juvenile delinquency

  -Urbanisation and congested cities

  -Growing tension on account of increased stress

  -Employment of women in large numbers

  -Need for correct understanding of religious matters

  -Political exploitation

  -Population explosion

  -Industrial psychology and its requirements

  -Search for identity of the youth

  -Need for wholesome relations

  -Need for making educational choices

  -Need for effective learning

  -Need for proper involvement in co curricular work

• Benefits of guidance

  -Benefits to students:

  • It assists the pupil to understand himself

• It assists the pupil to get the maximum out of the school

• It assists the pupil to become acceptable to other pupils

• It assists the pupils in making careful choice of subjects and courses

• It assists the pupil in developing good study habits

• It assists the pupil in making appropriate occupational choices

• It assists the pupil in developing better personal, social and emotional relationships

-Benefits to teachers:

• It increases the teachers understanding of his students and thus enables him to provide better instructions

• It enables the teacher to understand the strengths and weaknesses of his pupils

• It enables the teachers to devise suitable methods and programmes to meet the specific and individual needs of the students

• Due to it teachers get in touch with the parents and obtain useful information

-Benefits to parents:

• It helps the parents to understand their children

• It enables the parents to get suitable and adequate information about various courses of study and vocations.

• It points out that parents must provide appropriate endowment to their children.

• It improves parent child relationship.

• It assists in improving the relationship between the parent, the school and the university.

-Benefits to the community:

• It feeds the community with better adjusted citizens

• It serves to prevent problems which may lead to mental illness

-Benefits to the administrators:

• It assists in making admission to various courses

• It enables the administrator to make the best use of the energy, money, time and resources of the members of the staff, students and their parents and the community at large.

Limitations of guidance:

• It is not a panacea for all educational and vocational ills

• Its services are not well organised

• It is limited due to lack of personnel and other facilities

• In it there is an overdoing of psychological tests

• Conditions of life are too complex for any person to solve the problems of another through guidance

• Unqualified guidance personnel may do more harm than good