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Guidance and Counseling

Notes • Individual Differences : All the psychologists and scientists agree regarding individual
differences. According to a collective view, there are no two persons alike in this universe.
• Variety of Vocations : At present, the vocational guidance is needed due to the multiplicity of
vocations. Such number of vocations never existed in earlier days. Due to very limited
number of vocations, people never faced difficulty in selecting then. Today, there is so
much increase in the number of vocations that the description of vocations has to be supplied
to the pupil before he leaves the school.
• Vocational Progress : Merely entry into some vocation carries no importance. But it is more
important to know about a person’s progress in that vocation after his entry intot he vocation.
• For Proper Utilization of Human Potentialities : It is essential to know the hidden capacities and
emergies of a person. But knowing them is not enough. The human emergies can be best
utilized by vocational guidance for vocational guidance
• Establishing Co-ordination between Family an Vocational Life : A coordination between family
and vocational or professional life of a person is must. The professional successes affect the
family life is very essential.
• For Unsuitable Occupations : When a person enters to some vocation without any preplanning,
then after sometime he feels that he is not suitable for that vocation or that vocation is not
suitable for him.
• The preceding description of vocational guidance must have made it apparent that it requires
two kinds of information or subject-matter.
• In this manner, vocational guidance has two aspects.
(a) Study of Individual
(b) Study of occupational or professional sphere.
• Having collected all the necessary and desired information regarding the individual under
consideration, it is necessary to turn to another aspect of vocational guidance, that of studying
the professional world.
• Age : It is at adolescence stage that the children begin to think more seriously of their future
career and they are in attendence in the school at this stage.
• Data: The schools are in a better position to collect comprehensive and reliable information
concerning.

6.14 Keywords

Vocation : A type of work or way of life that you believe is especially suitable for you.
Stagnation : A process of stopping somethings development or making progress.
Appropriate : Suitable or acceptable or correct for the particular circumstances.
Intended : That you are trying to achieve or reach

Rendered : To cause somebody/something to be is a particular state or condition.
6.15 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by Educational guidance ?
2. Explain the need and nature of Educational guidance.

3. What are the objectives of Educational Guidance ?
4. What is the scope of vocational Guidance ?

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