KMJ

Information & Guidance Centre

A career guidance centre that has been functioning at Kannur Muslim Jama-ath with the help of CIGI(Centre For Information & Guidance India),in order to give proper guidelines for the young generation on education and career. This centre is financially supported by Qatar Kannur Muslim Jama-ath Committee. In addition to this, there will be regular classes and training camps for the skill development of the students for competitive exams.

Guidance was originally centered on problems related to vocations for young people. Adolescents who were not in school, had nothing to do, indulged in various activities resulted in delinquency. To reduce delinquency, an effort was made with guidance which aimed at choice of job suited to the abilities and needs of the adolescents. The chief guidance responsibility of society is towards children and youth. Guidance functions whenever choices are made and even when there is no choice, it helps the individual to understand and accept the situation. It is not only needed in crisis situations but throughout the life for personality development. Guidance which comes in just by the way as life goes is informal guidance; the guidance for achievement in our day-to-day life is incidental guidance. The specific form of guidance with a purpose is the formal guidance which helps the individual to find a solution to problem. Guidance is the assistance made available by qualified and trained persons to an individual of any age to help him to manage his own life activities, develop his own points of view, make his own decisions and carryon his own burdens. In the educational context, guidance means assisting students to select courses of study appropriate to their needs and interests, achieve academic excellence to the best possible extent, derive maximum benefit of the institutional resources and facilities, inculcate proper study habits, and satisfactorily participate in curricular and extracurricular activities.

The term 'guidance' derives its meaning from the world 'guide' which refers to a person who shows the way. A guide needs to possess intimate knowledge regarding places, ways, etc., to enlighten individuals about a new place. This guidance means 'to guide'. Even at the earliest stages of the developmental history of human civilization, adults must have extended guidance to the young for growing in and adjusting to various developmental situations in life. Although man's physical nature and equipment have remained unchanged for centuries, the structure of society has become tremendously complex. Urban life, mobility, industrialization, hi-tech advancements, increasing media of communication, had introduced new social-personal challenges which the young or their family adults found difficult to cope with; this state of affairs led to the origin of guidance.

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