Guidance counselors have a history

At a time when the very existence of information and guidance centers (CIO) and their staff, custodians of the history of guidance, are called into question, this book is timely to understand the reasons that have leads to this state of affairs. Work of a historian, man of the trade and profession, it gives us the opportunity to better understand why and how this notion of orientation was developed and to what social problems it responds. The author thus makes the orientation “A globalizing object of history”, to think about it in relation to all the dimensions which structure and organize the society of the first half of the 20th century. By resituating orientation in a broad political and cultural context, it shows, at the same time, the initiatives of a certain number of intellectuals in the field of a nascent psychology and of civil society, relayed by the public authorities to promote apprenticeship and professional integration of young people.

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