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CHAPTER TT
HTSTORY OF Tffi GÜTDAI$OE ¡JIOVETIENT TT,T THE UÏ$TTED STATES
rt is felt that thås survey of guldance practices
1n cana;da ehould begin by d.rawing to the attentlon of the
read.er, the soclaìl rnovements that gave rlse to the practice
of guld.ance ln the united states and by follovilng these
hlstorlcal begLnnlngs lnto the provinoes of canad.a. rt is
hoped that we mey thus Lay the groundwork for the more
conplete statement oa ea;ch province whlch w111 follow in
later chapters" Canada hâs lagged behind. he¡ Amerlcan
nelghbor and is only now fittlng thls new movement lnto
her educatlonal philosophy,
Pegf-nnings of Guidance in the Ïlnrtecr states
social movements do not appear full-blown like
inventions - they grow from very enar_l beginnings and. are
very dlfflcuLt to detect. Theee begfnnings are seemingly
unlmportant events whlch are later modified by socia,l and,
economlc cond.itions until eventually they æe d.etected.
and. used as evldence that a new movement has eome into
belng' rt ie these tangf.ble evld.ences of the crystallizatlon
of a movement which are often accepted and. dated
as the genesls or origin of the: movernent,
'or many centurles guidanoe g"ew un?ecognl zed.,
d'eveloping s1owLy, untir. near the end of the nineteenth
oentury theee tend.encles found. expressron and were d.rawn
out to pubLf.e vi-ew" Booke offering systematio occupatlonar.
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