VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 



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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 



developed in the elementary and secondary 

 schools. 



In the complex and numerous vocational 

 opportunities afforded by modern society, the 

 problem of vocational guidance would be im- 

 possible were it to be considered as an effort 

 to find a certain niche into which each indi- 

 vidual must fit, for there are thousands of such 

 occupational niches. But there are certain well- 

 defined general groups that we recognize, as 

 agriculture, commerce, industry, the household 

 arts and the professions, with a few fairly defi- 



teachers, books, pamphlets and papers. The li- 

 brary is an excellent agency to be utilized in the 

 spread of such knowledge. Men and women 

 in different vocations may address the pupils 

 in the school, explaining the elements essential 

 to success in their special fields, the demands 

 on the workers and other important facts grow- 

 ing out of their own individual experiences. 

 Through the cooperation of the vocational- 

 guidance department with the occupational life 

 of the community, pupils are enabled to visit 

 the industries and learn at first hand something 



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RELATIVE PROPORTION OF WORKERS IN VARIOUS FIELDS 



subdivisions, and pupils may be helped to 

 determine, in a measure, their special fitness 

 for these. 



Methods of Vocational Guidance. Vocational 

 guidance has worked through three channel-; 

 > are the giving of vocational information; 

 the application of tests, both physical :m<l men- 

 tal, to determine the aptitude of children, and 

 placement and follow-up work, m industry. 

 Concerning the different vocations, pupils 

 may be informed as to their nature, present- 

 day conditions, personal and educational en- 

 trance requirements, dangers, advantages and 

 disadvantages, and returns. They may learn of 

 uons under which tlio various indiis- 

 operate; their stability, hours of labor, 

 >-, and whether tin- occupation is a purely 

 1 one. Such information is furnished through 



of the nature of the occupations and the envi- 

 ronments they afford. 



The vocational abilities of pupils may be as- 

 certained through physical and psychological 

 tests. The Hinct-Siinon tests are used for i 

 eral intelligence, and other tests are being de- 

 vised to discover special aptitudes. Short vo- 

 cational courses provided in the upper grammar 

 grades or junior high school perform the double 

 function of giving informal ion as to the actual 

 shop operations and of helping pupils to dis- 

 cover their own interests and aptitudes. 



The placement and follow-u; : voca- 



tional guidance ha\e been conducted in some 

 places through experts known as tors. 



whose business it is to keep in touch with the 

 changing industry and seek the t of 



pupils in accordance with their best abilities. 



