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Unit 1: Guidance: Meaning, Nature and Scope

Scope of guidance service in schools help to make a satisfactory transition from home to the school Notes
to diagonose the difficulties in the learning of basic skills, to help them to avoid potential dropouts
to study in schools. To help them understand the purpose and meaning of life to plan for further
education.

1.3 Scope of Guidance

The scope of guidance is all pervading. Its scope is very vast in the light of modernisation and
industrialisation and is ever increasing. As the life is getting complex day by day, the problems for
which expert help is needed are rapidly increasing. The scope of guidance is extending horizontally
to much of the social context, to matters of prestige in occupations, to the broad field of social trends
and economic development. Crow and Crow have rightly quoted,” As now interpreted, guidance
touches every aspect of an individual’s personality-physical, mental, emotional and social. It is
concerned with all aspects of an individual’s attitudes and behaviour patterns. It seeks to help the
individual to integrate all of his activities in terms of his basic potentialities and environmental
opportunities.”
Kothari Commission has stressed the need of guidance services in the schools. Regarding scope of
guidance, commission was of the view. “Guidance services have a much wider scope and function
than merely that of assisting students in making educational and vocational choices. The aims of
guidance are both adjustive and developmental, it helps the student in making the best possible
adjustments to the situations in the educational institutions and in the home. Guidance, therefore,
should be regarded as an integral part of education.”
The scope of guidance has been increasing with the advancement of science and technology,
embracing all spheres of life and providing facilities for it. Therefore, it will be difficult to put a
fence around it. While discussing the scope of guidance we may think of some specific or specialised
areas of guidance. Even though the guidance programme is addressed to the whole individuals
treated as an integral unit. It is possible to classify an individual’s problems broadly into educational,
vocational and personal.
(1) Educational Guidance: It is a process concerned with bringing about a favourable setting for
the individual’s education and includes the assistance in the choice of subjects, use of libraries,
laboratories. workshops, development of effective study habits, evaluation techniques and
adjustment of school life with other activities :
(2) Vocational Guidance: It is the assistance rendered in meeting the problems :
(i) relating to the choice of vocation (ii) preparing for it (iii) entering the job, and (iv) achieving
adjustment to it.
It also aims-at helping individuals in the following specific areas :
(a) making individuals familiar with the world of work and with its diverse requirements and,
(b) to place at the disposal of the individual all possible aids in making correct appraisal of his
strength and weaknesses in relation to the job requirements offered by his environment.
(3) Personal Guidance: Personal guidance deals with the problems of personal adjustment in
different spheres of life. Mainly it works for the individuals adjustment to his social and
emotional problems. Jones has put the following aims of personal guidance :
(i) to assist the individual gradually to develop his life goals that are socially desirable and
individually satisfying.
(ii) to help him to plan his life so that these goals may be attained.

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