Show vocational GUI GUIDANCE DANItE probably no phase of the movement for vocational aduca tion exhibits 61 clearer eater evidence of the rapid evolution in thought and practice ithac is taking place than vocational guidance says dr W T bawden specialist in industrial education of the unit ed S states tes bureau of education in his annual review of progress for the year 1915 made to the secretary ry of the interior only a few short months ago vocational guidance was conceived of chiefly as a matter of giving to boys and girls advice in the choosing of a life work and assisting in the securing of positions in view of the ambitious attempts made in a few quarters and especially the claims of a few few concerns that have investigated the commercial possibilities of vocational guidance extravagant trava gant expectations have been raised in the popular mind that have not been realized this conception is rapidly passing however and among the leaders of the vocational 9 guidance u id nce movement the chief function tion of their now regarded as the study olf of vocational conditions and opportunities and the making of the resulting information available to boys and girls the most important service that can be rendered the individual under the name of vocational ca cat ional tiofil guidance is to set him to thinking at the proper time about the problem of choosing a life work as a problem to be seriously faced and prepared for to make him fully conscious of its existence as a problem to be solved and aware of the sources of data having any bearing on its solution vocational guid guidance ancL in its application to college and university students has been receiving special attention according to dr bawden he points out that sooner or later a closer correlation will have to be worked out between the ahe college course and the life of the community for which students are educated probably the most serious obstacle to progress in ha vocational guidance is the aloofness of the schoolteacher under ordinary conditions from such of the worlds work and the practical ad difficulties in the way af of bai hs knowing very much about certain vastly important phases of it t through actual participation 0 or i even through close contact important events during we trie past year include the offering of a college course for vocational counsell couns ellora orsbY by boston university will in operation cooperation co with the vocation bureau boston mass arid and the elm announcement by the tuck school of ni finance nance and business administration at dartmouth of if a new course for employment managers to consider the problems arising in connection with the examination employment and training of a staff of employees plo |