Understanding Guidance: Definitions, Nature, Scope, and Importance
Guidance is a process that provides appropriate help for individuals to achieve desirable aims in life. It involves directing, pointing out, or showing the path for personal development. Definitions from various scholars highlight guidance as assistance in making intelligent choices and adjustments. The nature of guidance focuses on self-dependence, problem-solving, and continuous development. Its scope encompasses various aspects like educational selection, job placement, mental health maintenance, and personal adjustment counseling. Overall, guidance aims to aid individuals in achieving their maximum potential across different life domains.
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PPT : GUIDANCE PRESENTED BY PRAVRAJIKA TAPOMAYAPRANA
GUIDANCE MEANING DEFINITIONS NATURE SCOPE NEED AND IMPORTANCE DIFFERENT TYPES OF GUIDANCE
MEANING Guidance is a process through which a person gets an appropriate help to achieve the desirable aims in life. Guidance means to direct , to point out or to show the path . It is the assistance or help given by a more experienced person to a less experienced person to solve certain major problems( such as educational,vocational,personal, etc.) of the individual (less experienced). Its ultimate aim is to facilitate personal development. It is considered a concept as well as a process. As a concept, it is concerned with the optimal development of an individual. As a process, it helps a person in self understading and in self-direction.
DEFINITIONS According to Chisholm : Guidance seeks to help each individual become familiar with a wide range of information about himself; his interests, his abilities, his previous development in the various areas of living and his plans or ambitions for the future. According to A J Jones : Guidance is an assistance, given to an individual in making intelligent choices and adjustments . According to Dunsmoor and Miller : Guidance is a means of helping individuals to understand and use wisely the educational, vocational and personal opportunities, they have or can develop and as a form of systematic assistance, whereby students are aided in achieving satisfactory adjustments to school and life .
NATURE It is a helping service. It helps to develop self-dependence and self-determination in the person to solve his difficulties and problems by himself. It is a continuous process aimed at helping individuals to make sound decisions and adjustments to the various situations that arise from time to time. It is a problem-solving and multifaceted activity. Choice and problem points are its distinctive concerns. It is assistance to the individual in the process of development rather than a direction in the development. It is a generalized as well as a specialised service. It is a service meant for all.
SCOPE Guidance is helping an individual in every walk of his/her life, such as In the selection of educational couses and profitable occupations In job placement Placement in the next stage of education and training Occupational surveys Improvement of study skills Maintenance of mental health Counselling regaring personal adjustment problems Identifying the gifted and the backward and helping them achieve the maximum
Thus, the concerns of guidance are : Vocational Educational Avocational GUIDANCE Social Moral Health Personal Marital
NEED AND IMPORTANCE It helps a person to develop his/her capabilities and prepares him/her to cope up with different situations. It helps an individual to adjust in his/her environment and act accordingly. It is needed after board exams to help the students to choose which stream is best for them. It plays a very important role at the time of career selection and helps youth to opt best career plan which gives meaning to their life. It is necessary to help an individual to attain the maturity of judgement, stability of emotions and volitional control which are the characteristics of sel- direction. It helps to understand oneself , one s talents, abilities and potentials as well as the limitations. It is very essential for students who do not complete their education due to fear of failure, bad conduct of peers and teachers. Guidance encourages them to complete their education and become successful.
It identifies and takes care of students probems that pertain to their educational progress and experience. It helps students to participate in the educational activities and to coordinate with the school environment. Educational Guidance It helps students to make educational plans according to their abilities, interests and goals. It is a process of providing assistance to students making decisions and choices involved in planning a future and building a career. Vocational Guidance It helps an individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter upon it and progress in it.
It is the assistance offered to the individuals to solve their emotional, social, ethical , moral and health problems. It acts towards a better adjustment in the development of attitudes and behaviours in all areas of life . Personal Guidance Its aim is to solve the emotional and psychological problems. It helps to adjust oneself in the society and to attain maturity. It helps an individual to understand his/her family , marital and social relations and to carry out related responsibilities. Social Guidance It helps to develop healthy relations with peers and members of the society.
It helps individuals to be in right track and lead noble lives. It teaches an individual the moral values and helps them to be able to differentiate between right and wrong. Moral Guidance It helps students to have sound body and mind. It guides individuals in the knowledge and practice of good food habits and physiognomy. Health Guidance
REFERENCES S K KOCHCHAR , EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. SHARMA NANDINI AND KULSHRESHTHA, NTA UGC/EDUCATION
