Educational Guidance and Counselling: Need and Scope

Guidance:

Guidance plays an important role in the field of educational psychology. It enables a student to solve his/her educational, vocational and psychological problems properly and in a systemic way.

In education, it has some different meaning. Here we mean that helping out a student in discovering his/her capabilities, potential, capacities and the aptitude.

Experts’ Views:

· Fowler believes that guidance is to helping the student for favorable adjustments.

· Crow and Crow is of the view that guidance is to helping an individual or providing assistance to an individual by a competent person for developing his point of view, making and carrying out own decision.

· Kitson says that guidance is an individualized education.

· Jones considers guidance as the promotion of growth of individual’s self-direction.

· W.D Wall considers guidance as an intrinsic aspect of education.

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Key Points of Guidance:

· Its helps in discovering the abilities of an individual.

· Its is based on the interests and needs of an individual.

· Its focuses on individual and not on the issue.

· Its guides towards self-development.

· It helps in planning.

· It provides pace for adjusting oneself according environment.

· It helps in achieving happiness and success in life.

· It helps in building social relationships.

Counselling:

Counselling is a smaller part of guidance which deals with individuals issues. It refers to a process in which an individual takes some decision or to choose an option in matters related to him or her.

Key Points of Counselling:

· Counsellor through getting various information knows sufficiently about the individual.

· As for as counseling in education is concerned, a counselor tries to relate the student’s education with his/her profession.

· A counsellor must have a deep knowledge about the student; otherwise he or she would not be able to decide about the student in a better way.