Abstract
This research aims to analyze student guidance in the guidance theory introduction period and study the history and problems of post-war school social work services. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology provides a “Student Guidance Outline” that suggests that social work practices form a part of educational activities in schools. However, it does not clarify the purpose and function of social work at school. The relation between children's educational security and their welfare has been discussed several times after World War II, but the relation between student guidance and school social work continues to be overlooked. In this paper, I investigate this problem based on a historical study of student guidance in the early stage and of post-war school welfare services; I also focus on the possibility of building a pragmatic theory for school social work.
