Guidance and Counseling at Secondary School: A Review of Literature

This paper reviews the guidance and counseling at schools across the India. The aim of this paper is to overview the guidance in schools through literature review in order to have perspective of this field, and it further tries to find orientation solutions to rural Indian contexts. This paper explores the existing literature and analyzes various works done on the importance of establishing guidance at schools and finds that India is still deprived of the true spirit of guidance, counseling and lack of vigorous research. While comparing the context of India with other countries, it may be inferred that guidance has not yet been paid proper and adequate attention; hence career guidance has not yielded the desired objectives. The current study recommends that willing and motivated staff should be recruited and be given professional training and special courses so that the desired goals and objectives may be achieved. Because the key differences between guidance systems in different countries are related to experiences of economic development, to political system, to social and cultural factors, to education and training system, and to professional and organizational structures.