THE FOLLOWING ARE STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
STELLA MARIS MTWARA
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
STEMMUCO
(A
constituent collage of Saint Augustine of university of Tanzania)

FACULTY OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT: EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS
CORSE TITLE: GUIDANCE
AND COUNSELING
COURSE CODE: EP 222
COURSE INSTRUCTOR:
MR MERCHADES MUZAURA MARCIALE
NATURE OF ASSIGNMENT: INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
ATTEMPTED BY: ASILAH A. KHAIFY
TASK:
Read any book of guidance and counseling and summarize by identifying the
strengths and weaknesses
Guidance is a
process or a tools that
enable and individual
to discover the
ways to recognize his/her
inherent strength (kinra ,2008 ).
Guidance’s refer to the process acquainting
the individual with various way endowments so that special way including
special training in which he may
discover his natural endowment so that he make a living to his own best advantages and that of the society
(united state office of education 1918)
Guidance is an
assistance provide by a component counseling
to an individual of any ago to
help him
direct his life
develop his own point of view
,makes his own decision and carry his
own burdens (crow and crow 1962).
Generally
guidance is an aspect in human life which is concerned with helping assist them
to become adjusted to his her present situation and plan future in line with
their interest ability band social need. Guidance is a process in human life of
each an individual able to do solve their problem and the pursue a way which suited their abilities and
aspirations it make the use of psychology to determine the attitude and
aspirations.
It
makes the use of psychology to determine the attitude, interest, intelligence, personality
and the discipline of education for providing
right and suitable assistance ;it is long process start from a child
hood ,adolescence and over old ages ,through this help a person to identify
where to go ,what to do and how do for post accomplished of their goals .
Counseling
is the application of personal of the school or the instructions to the
solution of the problem that individual have (Humphery and Traxler 1962)
Counseling
don’t means providing a service by means of which specifies problem of an individual may be solved .the
process should help the in gaining clear might into the problem and achieving in self confidence.(Rogers
1942)
Counseling
is person to person relationship in which one individual with problem and needs
turns to another person for assistance (Erickosn 1962)
Generally
counseling is a service offered to an individual who is undergoing a problem
and need a progression help to overcome it. Counseling there fire is more
specific service requiring training in personality development and handling
exception Group of individual .it involves a lot of time for the client to
unfold the problem gain an insight into the complex situation as it involves
listening emphatic understand releasing the pent up feeling confronting the
client and so on counseling therefore is offered to only those in individual
who are serious problems and need professional help to overcome it.
NEED OF COUNSELING AND
GUIDANCE
Guidance
is a part and parcel of human life ,it
passes from childhood ,adult to over old age .it is very needed in our life
especially now days due to changes into
social religious, economic , development , industry, cultural change
which affects directly people into normal life as a result the emergency on
need of guidance.(Kinra ,2008)
Counseling
is interval part process of assistance need to extended by an expert in an
individual situation to a need person is face to face who make available
assistant to the need individual to fulfill their need demand.
THE
FOLLOWING ARE STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
By
using the book of guidance and counseling write by ASHA Kinra, 2008, explain
the concept of guidance and counseling is following.
The
concept of guidance become complex with science and technology in our daily
life sphere .In order to adapt new modern life , guidance must played a great
large and we should depend on guiding
each others.
Due
to changes in environmental and psychology of human guidance and counseling
change from normal service to scientific organization service provide by
professional person to the client
Starting
with strength of guidance and counseling as follows
In
this book an author wrote about the object of guidance and counseling in human life.
According to author of book integrate the importance of guidance and counseling
in every day human life. From this an author analysis the object of guidance
and counseling for example through guidance and counseling help to make individual aware of her/his
inherent potential, interested, talents, and capabilities .To help a person to develop
ability interest and skill way he can make a useful contribution to the society
accounting to his capacity .this all was writing by author so as to encourage
people not feel pity and inferior in the life in search they fail to move on
instead to encourage them to stand on their own feel towards their need,
interested and skill to achieve their goals.
Also
the book integrates to guidance and counseling in educational system .an author
Star. By definition education as knowledge imparted to students by a teacher on
classroom. Author recommends that to a student by teachers in class rooms.
Author recommend that education guidance in an important segment of guidance
program .it is an inseparable part of education hence it has a special
significance .in integration of education with guidance and counseling the
following outlined.
Relationship
between education and counseling and guidance as the is inseparable and close
relationship between these two due the following reasons, firstly the process
of changing with in an individual. Both direct and indirect towards changes from
one point to another for example if a student learnt about content there is no
need of guidance but to bring about change through education on a student need
a guidance .the second is education is education is instructions, when a
teacher trying to help a student he way that suited him to be copied by
students that is teaching but when teacher assistant the learners to choose a
method that is a guidance. Also in educational as social task, man is social
being into need the society to shape him mental and physical in this situation,
guidance is need.
Also a author explain the way , significance of guidance and
counseling in various stages of education an author started by explain
significant of guidance and counseling in primary stage level of education so
as to prevent a child from being a victim of adjustment and cultural a good habitats for them to learn
solving problems since they shift from families atmosphere to education
atmosphere that a complex and required
guidance and counseling to them ,also in secondary level an author recommend
that ,it is important to plant a child in secondary level with guidance so
as to building their own self are biological
passed to them.
Also
explain way of provide guidance and counseling to exceptional children exceptional
children are different average from normal children whether extraordinary
intelligence who are most more have guidance like to develop their talent further
according to their ability potential and interested For example a child hearing
impairment or eye sight decent must given guidance on how whether by using
cassette also teacher should need
property and slowly so as to help them
to detect is learn in class.
Also
the book author identify the Value of guidance and counseling .Counseling has
been prevalent in human society in one from as the other ancient time
immemorial with the change of time and social value complex of human problem
had been gradually grown. Change in economics, social, religion and morals
angle made the value of counseling sphere, nature size and meaning
Lasting
with weakness of guidance and counseling from this book written by Kinra a case
study of her book in case of guidance and counseling and able to provide
challenge scope significance of guidance and counseling .this is weakness
because she fail to understand research and survey about guidance and
counseling to other part forexmple in Africa like Tanzania, Uganda, Niger
Conclusion
Guidance
and counseling is an ancient programs that still alive up to now days in our
life .it part and parcel of human life we act ,we do ,we change because of
guidance and counseling because it is part of life and society at all it acts
as an education that shape us.
REFERENCE
Kinra,
K, A. Guidance and Counseling .Dorking Kindersley Publisher .India
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