This handbook offers a comprehensive review on career guidance, with an emphasis on the applied aspects of guidance together with research methods and perspectives. It features contributions from more than 30 leading authorities in the field from Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe and draws upon a wide range of career guidance paradigms and theoretical perspectives. This handbook covers such subjects as educational and vocational guidance in a social context, theoretical foundations, educational and vocational guidance in practice, specific target groups, testing and assessment, and evaluation.

The Theory and Practice of Vocational Guidance: A Selection of Readings is a compilation of papers that discusses theoretical foundations and practical applications of vocational guidance. The book presents 36 articles that cover various concerns in career counseling, both in theory and in practice. The first part of the text deals with theoretical concerns in vocational guidance, such as model for the translation of self-concepts into vocational terms; social factors in vocational development; young workers in their first jobs; and the criteria of vocational success. In the next part, the book presents the practical issues, which include needed counselor competencies in vocational aspects of counseling and guidance; an occupational classification for use in vocational guidance; psycho-social aspects of work; and key concepts in the use of psychological tests in vocational guidance. The book will be of great use to any professionals, but will be most useful to those involved in career counseling, such as human resource practitioners, school counselors, and college career advisers.

The book Educational Guidance & Counseling is an ample academic effort to envisage the theoretical understanding of basic concepts of Guidance and Counselling. The stuff in this book has been set in a simple and clear language for the understanding of the diverse readers. This book comprises the syllabi of different courses being offered by different universities in the nation for numerous degrees. This book contains several chapters relating to the meaning, need, importance as well as different types, procedures or techniques of guidance as well as counseling that may be helpful for students as well as educators. It provides the theoretical background in simplest dialect with examples. It is primarily intended to serve as a textbook for graduate, post-graduate students and also researchers working in this field. This work is also beneficial for self-learners. It is expected that this book in the existing form will be well-received. All topics of the book aim to help the students not only of education but from other fields also. As such it is broadly relevant for scholars, teachers, and NET/SET aspirants. It will be of enormous use to the teaching faculty. The work is a systematic presentation and discussing the topics to offer a modest contribution on the subject.

The Book Covers A Wide Spectrum Of Topics Relating To Counselling And Guidance Concepts, Principles And Types Of Guidance And Counselling, Career Information And Its Importance, Psychological Tests, Nontesting Techniques Of Guidance, Resources Needed T

Partitioning schools : federal vocational policy, tracking, and the rise of twentieth-century dogmas / Michael Thier, Joshua Fitzgerald, and Paul Beach -- Fitted to serve their community : race and power at penn school and the transition to vocational education / Mary-Lou Breitborde -- A school of their own : movements to provide industrial education in Columbus, Georgia for marginalized students on both sides of the color line / Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw -- Disentangling the triumph of vocationalism from the institutionalization of vocational education : a reexamination of the Douglas Commission report, social efficiency, and the Cooley controversy / Stephen Provasnik -- More than mere "book-learning" : democracy and vocational -- Education in the territory of Hawai'i, 1900-1959 / Michelle M.K. Morgan -- The give and take of vocationalism at the local level : administrative and student perspectives on Milwaukee's interwar high schools / Kyle P. Steele -- Striving for a unity of opposites : the general education movement, vocationalism, and secondary education / Kevin S. Zayed -- Trending toward "new vocationalism" in college and career readiness definitions / Matthew J. Benus and Catherine L. Livesay -- Cutting-edge (and dull) paths forward : accountability and career and technical education under the Every Student Succeeds Act / Paul Beach, Michael Thier, Joshua Fitzgerald, and Christine M.T. Pitts