Lesson 1 - Nature, Meaning, and Scope Flashcards
The 12 Nature of Guidance
*Guidance is education itself.
*Guidance is a process.
*Guidance is a continuous process.
*Guidance is related with life.
*Guidance is self-direction.
*Guidance is individual-centered.
*Guidance is a qualified, complex and organized service.
*Guidance is based on individual differences.
*Universality of guidance.
*Guidance is making potential actual.
*Preparation for future.
*Modification of Behavior.
It aims at educating the individual for understanding himself, unfolding his potentialities to the maximum so that he may eventually prove himself to be an adjusted and progressive member of the community.
Guidance is education itself.
It is a process that enables an individual in discovering himself in the most satisfying and positive manner.
Guidance is a process.
It is a dynamic and a non-stop process. In this process, an individual understands himself, learns to maximize his own capacities, interests and other abilities.
Guidance is a continuous process.
It is related to human life, its problems and challenges and how to face them. Guidance helps people to live a balanced and tension free-life with full satisfaction under the circumstances.
Guidance is related with life.
The nature of Guidance is not to thrust itself on an individual. It does not make choices for him for the ultimate purpose of guidance is to guide the individual in directing himself, making his own choices, fixing his own life-goals and carrying his own burden.
Guidance is self-direction.
The focus of all guidance program is the individual who need to manage himself today and tomorrow by a healthy alignment of individual desires and aspiration with socially desirable good.
Guidance is individual-centered.
Guidance is catered by qualified and trained personnel. Hence, guidance is a skill-involved process.
Guidance is a qualified, complex and organized service.
The fact that individuals differ significantly, forms the basis of Guidance.
Guidance is based on individual differences.
Guidance is for all. Every person needs guidance at all the stages of life situations from childhood to old age.
Universality of guidance.
Guidance program aid the individual in the discovery of his/her hidden potential for his/her own benefit and for the community.
Guidance is making potential actual.
The process of guidance is helpful in preparing a person for his future in terms of career and vocation.
Preparation for future.
Guidance helps the persons in his adjustment in different situations and to modify one’s behavior as the situation warrants.
Modification of Behavior.
Helping John to see through himself in order that he may see himself through.”
Hamrin
Is the systematic, organized phase of the educative process which helps a youth to grow in his own power, to give point and direction to his own life with the end in view that he may get richer personal experiences as he makes his own contribution to the society.
Lefever
Involves personal help given to someone; it is designed to assist the person to decide where he wants to go, what he wants to do, or how he can best accomplish his purpose. It does not solve problems for the individual but helps him to solve them.
Jones
is the assistance made available by personally qualified and adequately trained men and women to an individual of any age to help him manage his own life activities, develop his own point of view, make his own decisions, and carry his own burdens.
Crow and Crow
Is a cooperative enterprise in which many people working together organize their knowledge to contribute to the solution of a student’s problems and the development of his potentialities.
Ohlsen
Is a process of helping the individual to determine his physical, social, intellectual, and personality assets and liabilities as well as to know the conditions, requirements, and opportunities of the situations, confronting him
Bennett
serves a supporting function in the educational process by directing and controlling activities to help individual develop his fullest potential.
Ryan and Zeran
tends to help the Individual to become adjusted to his present situation so as to provide the maximum development for him and to help him plan for his future.
Aquino and Alviar
means to stimulate and help the student set up worthwhile, achievable purpose and to develop abilities which will make it possible for him to achieve his purpose.
Wrinkle and Gilchrist
may be defined as a point of view. The guidance point of view emphasizes the unique needs of each individual, needs which may not be compatible with those needs which the teacher so often pre-determines
Peters and Farwell
Factors that are responsible for the expansion of the scope of guidance.
- Complex nature of personality
- Complexity of Occupation
- Complexity of Training
- Increasing Areas
- Migration
- The Expansion of Education
- Areas/Aspects of Guidance
