World scouting : educating for global citizenship / Eduard Vallory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallory, Eduard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scouting (Youth activity).

Citizenship.

Youth movements.

Service learning.

Physical Description:

xix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Many works have been written on scouting worldwide, but most of them were centered in a particular country or moment of history. This book explains in a very comprehensible way the main characteristics of world (boy and girl) Scouting, the largest youth movement in the planet, existing in more than 165 countries of the five continents. Using new data and storytelling, the work covers the main elements that distinguish the scout-movement over the world, and explains its origin, evolution operating system, and the soundness of its values. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 One Hundred Years of Transforming the Future 7

1 The Precedents of World Scouting (1907-1920) 8

1.1 An Idea, a Book, and How They Came About 8

1.2 Scouting in Britain and Its Spontaneous Internationalization 13

1.3 Peace and the Ideal of the League of Nations 18

2 The Historical Development of Scouting Worldwide 21

2.1 The Period under the Leadership of Robert Baden-Powell 21

2.2 The Globalization of Scouting 31

3 Evolution of the WOSM Censuses (1924-2004) 37

4 World Scouting in the Twenty-first Century: Some Numbers 42

2 An Ideal, a Movement, an Organization 51

1 Essential Characteristics of Scouting 53

1.1 Definition (What it is) 54

1.2 Purpose (Why It Does Exist) and Principles (Values on Which It Is Based) 59

1.3 Educational Method 64

2 A Highly Intuitive Educational Movement 68

2.1 More a Network Movement Than an Organization 68

2.2 The Educational Impact and the "Magic" of Scouting 71

3 How the Organization Works: Town, Country, and World 78

3.1 The Local Group and the National Association 80

3.2 When a Country Has More Than One Association 82

3.3 World Organization(s) and Global Belonging 85

3.4 The Gender Approach: WOSM and WAGGGS Separated... Forever? 88

4 Recognition and Belonging 91

4.1 Relevance of the Recognition Policy 92

4.2 Differentiating between What Is and Is Not Scouting 95

4.3 Religion, Culture, Tradition: Motives for Split in Scouting 98

3 "Glocal" Citizenship Education 105

1 Citizenship Education and Scouting 106

1.1 What Does to Educate Citizens Mean? 106

1.2 The Assumptions of "Citizenship" in Scouting 108

1.3 Values to Perpetuate Society versus Values to Transform Society 112

2 Consistency and Incoherencies in a Global Movement 122

2.1 Scouting in the United States: Controversies and Culture War 123

2.2 Spiritual Dimension and Dependence from Denominations 134

2.3 Social Values, Cultural Change, and Critical Thinking 141

3 Local Rooting, National Belonging, and Global Commitment 152

3.1 Peace Culture, Human Rights, and Community Development 155

3.2 Legitimizing International Institutions 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230340688

0230340687

9780230340671

0230340679

OCLC:

745979548