World Scouting [electronic resource] : Educating for Global Citizenship /
Vallory, E.author.
In a very comprehensible and entertaining way explores the main findings of the first academic research on world scouting, the largest young movement on the planet. The work revisits scouting's origins, analyzing its structure and recognition policy, its role in developing ideas of global citizenship and belonging, and the spirit of scouting.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 One Hundred Years of Transforming the Future; 1 The Precedents of World Scouting (1907-1920); 2 The Historical Development of Scouting Worldwide; 3 Evolution of the WOSM Censuses (1924-2004); 4 World Scouting in the Twenty-first Century: Some Numbers; 2 An Ideal, a Movement, an Organization; 1 Essential Characteristics of Scouting; 2 A Highly Intuitive Educational Movement; 3 How the Organization Works: Town, Country, and World; 4 Recognition and Belonging; 3 "Glocal" Citizenship Education
1 Citizenship Education and Scouting2 Consistency and Incoherencies in a Global Movement; 3 Local Rooting, National Belonging, and Global Commitment; Concluding Remarks; Appendix: Countries and Territories with Associations Belonging to World Scouting (WOSM and/or WAGGGS, 2011); Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In a very comprehensible and entertaining way explores the main findings of the first academic research on world scouting, the largest young movement on the planet. The work revisits scouting's origins, analyzing its structure and recognition policy, its role in developing ideas of global citizenship and belonging, and the spirit of scouting.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
International organization.
International education .
Comparative education.
World history.
Social groups.
Family.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
International Organization.
International and Comparative Education.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.