The Foreign Scene in Guidance: The Development of Student Personnel Work in Iran.

The article presents information on the development of student personnel work in Iran. The University of Tehran is patterned after the University of Paris, for Iran's educational organization is built upon that of France, which had a great cultural influence in most Middle Eastern countries. The school system in Iran overlooks that the whole student comes to the school and also that when a student is admitted the whole student becomes its concern. Hence, it seems that while the student furnishes the capacity and motivation, the Government should provide leadership and facilities, and that the university administration is responsible for creating an atmosphere in which the student may have the optimum possible opportunity of training to become a productive, useful, and healthy member of his society. The individual is required to fulfill a three-fold duty: responsibility-assuming; decision-making; and teamwork participation through self-governing organizations and various activities. The operation of counseling, advisement, and personnel services which may substantially contribute to the maturity and educational growth of the individual student are to be planned. Counseling is to be aimed at assisting the student to grow in understanding of himself so that he may arrive at constructive decisions, solutions, or ways of dealing effectively with his intermediate and immediate problems.