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Guidance and Counseling

Notes 6.13 Summary

• The term ‘Educational Guidance’ consists of two words — Education and Guidance.
• The term ‘Education’ is very broad and comprehensive. It is very difficult to give a
comprehensive and universal interpretation.
• Some important meanings of this term have been enumerated and stated in the following
paragraph :
(i) Education as a process of development.
(ii) Education as Teachers-Training.
(iii) Education as independent field of Study or Content or Subject of Study.

(iv) Education as an investment.
(v) Education as an instrument of social change and social control.
(vi) Education as a creature and creator of the society.
• Education as process of Development: The education is mainly considered as a process or human
development.
• Human being has two forms: biological and social. In order to develop his second form, i.e.,
social form, the process of socialization is needed. In order to start this process, attention
must be paid to the various aspects of the social development of an individual.
• The description of these factors is given below :
(i) To solve the problems of wastage and staganation.
(ii) Appropriate selection of courses or subjects.
(iii) Making adjustment in school.
(iv) Information regarding future Education.
(v) Providing awareness about the job opportunities.
• The nature of educational guidance is stated in the following terms :
(i) Educational Guidance is Administered to Students : Out of the many problems that the students
is often faced with, there are some that he fails to solve of his own accord, and they do not
even admit of any fruitful assistance from the teachers or the parents.
(ii) Intended for Educational Selection : One part of the student’s education consists in making a
variety of selections, the first of them being the kind of college or school in which he
would like to be educated.
(iii) Rendered f or Adjustment in Education : A student finds a peculiar atmosphere in the college,
the like of which he cannot find outside, and he has to adjust himself to his atmosphere.
(iv) Making Education as Child-Centred: It is the educational guidance which makes the educational
process as child-centred.
• The scope of educational guidance, as we have said above, is as wide as that of educations
with a number of objectives. Some of the objectives which as minimum programme of
educational guidance should achieve are given below :
(i) Assisting students in understanding the purpose and the function of the school in relation
to their needs.
(ii) Assisting students in discovering all that the school has to offer and plan a programme of
studies accordingly. These objectives can be achieved through an orientation programme.
(iii) Assisting students in discovering their strengths and weaknesses : their assets and
liabilities.
• The functions of educational guidance at primary stage are :

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