Pedro Rebadulla Memorial Campus
Catubig, Northern Samar
EDUCATION 834
Principles of Guidance
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE
(Second Part: The Present Status of Guidance)
Submitted to:
DR. GLENDA T. DE GUIA
Professor
Submitted by:
ROWELENE O. CESISTA
MAED-Student
2nd Semester
SY 2014-2015
INTRODUCTION History and development of guidance around the world varies greatly based on how each country and local communities perceived its role and importance in every individual as well as in building a nation.
Lack of trained personnel and sympathetic administrators, lack of funds, and misconception about guidance were some of the factors which resulted into the sluggish progress of guidance. But despite of these hindrances, guidance has come to stay as a newer field of educational psychology. The movement of guidance has been spread in some countries, including the Philippines.
OBJECTIVE This report is aimed to discuss the history and development of guidance specifically its present status in some countries particularly in the Philippines.
CONTENT
Guidance in the United States In the United States, the school counselling profession began as a vocational guidance movement in the beginning of 20th century. Jesse B. Davis is considered the first to provide systematic school guidance program. In 1907, he became a principal of a high school and encouraged the school English teachers to use compositions and lessons to relate career interests, develop character and avoid behavioural problems. The first organized guidance movement which assist young people was started by a civic-minded leader, Frank Parsons, Father of Vocational Guidance, in Boston, Massachussetts. He started as a volunteer in the Civic Service House in Boston to observe maladjusted young men and women. Most of them were out of school and performed work which they were not qualified. He organized the Breadwinners’ Institute in
References: Fundamentals of Guidance and Counseling, pp. 19-23 www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_brief_history_of_guidance_and_counseling_in_the_Philippines www.studymode.com/essays/History_of_Guidance_Movement_437444.html by nivrazur, October 14, 2010