Educational Guidance. Theoretical and practical challenges

Abstract

Educational models recognize the way in which human beings face daily life. Thus, they are based on family, school, and community education, which they may have throughout their lives. This prerogative explains that, in contemporary pedagogical practices, educational guidance is incorporated as a quality condition, which rests on the influence that educators can exert in their guidance role or the professional specialized in this educational area. In this sense, the epistemological debate on this topic opens the possibility of analyzing this discipline from a science, technology, and society approach. Therefore, the objective was to characterize the challenges that, from the configuration, methodological, practical, theoretical structure, educational orientation has today. For this, the study was based on the reflection of the authors of some readings that, due to the relevance in the authorship or the delimitation of the objectives, were essential to reach conclusions. In this way, it is evident that educational orientation must be understood as a quality factor of education.