The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Guidance \Guid"ance\, n. [See Guide.]
   The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or
   assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
   [1913 Webster]

         His studies were without guidance and without plan.
                                                  --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

guidance
    n 1: something that provides direction or advice as to a
         decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counsel,
         counseling, counselling, direction]
    2: the act of guiding or showing the way [syn: guidance,
       steering]
    3: the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was
       installed under the direction of the king" [syn: steering,
       guidance, direction]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

113 Moby Thesaurus words for "guidance":
   abetment, administration, admonition, advice, advisement, advising,
   advocacy, aegis, auspices, authority, backing, briefing, care,
   catechization, caution, caveat, championship, charge, charity,
   coaching, command, conduct, consultation, control, council,
   counsel, countenance, cure, custodianship, custody, didactics,
   direction, edification, education, encouragement, enlightenment,
   exhortation, expostulation, favor, fosterage, goodwill, governance,
   government, guardianship, handling, hands, hortation, husbandry,
   idea, illumination, information, instruction, interest,
   jurisdiction, keeping, lead, leadership, leading, management,
   managery, managing, manipulation, ministry, monition, opinion,
   ordering, oversight, parley, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship,
   patronage, pedagogics, pedagogy, pilotage, private teaching,
   programmed instruction, proposal, protectorship, recommendation,
   reeducation, regulation, remonstrance, rule, running, safe hands,
   schooling, seconding, self-instruction, self-teaching, sponsorship,
   spoon-feeding, steerage, steering, stewardship, suggestion,
   sympathy, teaching, the conn, the helm, the wheel, thought,
   tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, ward, wardenship,
   wardship, warning, watch and ward, wing