Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Guidance is to help one to adjust to abilities, interests, and needs of the society. In other words it
means helping a person to develop in the desired direction and to orient him/herself according to the
needs and demands of changing times and society. Thus, the purpose of guidance is to improve the
capability of the individual to understand and deal with self-situational relation for greater personal
satisfaction and social usefulness which includes students, teachers, parents etc.
Borrow, H. (1983). Career Guidance for new age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Egbo, A. C. (2013). The Role of Guidance and Counselling in Effective Teaching and
Learning in Schools: The Nigerian Perspective. The European Conference on Education,
Official Conference Proceeding 0392. Retrieved from http://iafor.org/archives/offprints/ece2013
offprints/ECE2013_0392.pdf.
Gysbers, N. C., & Henderson, P. (1994). Developing and managing your school guidance
program. Alexandria, V. A.: American Counselling Association.
Mutie, E. K., & Ndambuki, P. (2000). Guidance and counselling for secondary school and
colleges. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.