The Age of Learning by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2001-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Guidance as an on-course helping process

Two research examples address the experience of on-course guidance. Houghton (1998) takes us through her role as a guidance officer/personal tutor on a year-long university-based course for long-term unemployed adults. Preece (1999) reports on interviews with tutors and students involved in short courses in community settings. In both reports the processes of guiding and supporting are seen as depending upon the skills and interventions of the tutor — anticipating needs, seeking out needs and nurturing self-awareness among students. Their role is one of proactive help and not a reliance on the learner's autonomous, self-directed seeking out of information and support. An emerging model for guidance that forefronts the client as an active agent in the process may well, therefore, delimit initial participation by the adults most in need of support. McGivney (1999) also emphasizes the importance of personal support in helping women returners, bringing us to another underdeveloped feature of guidance awareness.

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