Educational guidance: purposes, dimensions and contributions to integral human development

Abstract

The educational guidance is currently established as a global, holistic, multifaceted and multidimensional care process that seeks the development of the super-complexity of the human being. Important attributions related to the search for emotional, motivational and affective balance have been made to this as requirements to fulfill personal and social aspirations, as well as the construction of autonomous life projects that integrate moral and ethical values, vocational interests, which aims to promote self-fulfillment and the full functioning of personality. In attention to these tasks, this essay delves into the contributions of educational guidance, its purposes and the dimensions that this process manages to dimension to consolidate the ideals of human development. It is the result of a documentary review, which allowed us to deduce the following conclusions: social and educational coexistence depends on advisory relationships, in which the subject manages to identify their collective roles; the orientation favors the discovery of potentialities and effective social integration. Finally, as a socio-educational process, it takes special importance for its ability to raise human dignity, achieve the realization and exercise of individual and social freedom, as well as the activation of the necessary competencies to participate in everyone's affairs.