World scouting : educating for global citizenship / Eduard Vallory
- Author:
- Vallory, Eduard
- Published:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.One Hundred Years of Transforming the Future -- 1.The Precedents of World Scouting (1907-1920) -- 1.1.An Idea, a Book, and How They Came About -- 1.2.Scouting in Britain and Its Spontaneous Internationalization -- 1.3.Peace and the Ideal of the League of Nations -- 2.The Historical Development of Scouting Worldwide -- 2.1.The Period under the Leadership of Robert Baden-Powell -- 2.2.The Globalization of Scouting -- 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 -- 1.1.Definition (What It Is) -- 1.2.Purpose (Why It Does Exist) and Principles (Values on Which It Is Based) -- 1.3.Educational Method -- 2.A Highly Intuitive Educational Movement -- 2.1.More a Network Movement Than an Organization -- 2.2.The Educational Impact and the "Magic" of Scouting -- 3.How the Organization Works: Town, Country, and World -- 3.1.The Local Group and the National Association -- 3.2.When a Country Has More Than One Association -- 3.3.World Organization(s) and Global Belonging -- 3.4.The Gender Approach: WOSM and WAGGGS Separated... Forever? -- 4.Recognition and Belonging -- 4.1.Relevance of the Recognition Policy -- 4.2.Differentiating between What Is and Is Not Scouting -- 4.3.Religion, Culture, Tradition: Motives for Split in Scouting -- 3."Glocal" Citizenship Education -- 1.Citizenship Education and Scouting -- 1.1.What Does to Educate Citizens Mean? -- 1.2.The Assumptions of "Citizenship" in Scouting -- 1.3.Values to Perpetuate Society versus Values to Transform Society -- 2.Consistency and Incoherencies in a Global Movement -- 2.1.Scouting in the United States: Controversies and Culture War -- 2.2.Spiritual Dimension and Dependence from Denominations -- 2.3.Social Values, Cultural Change, and Critical Thinking -- 3.Local Rooting, National Belonging, and Global Commitment -- 3.1.Peace Culture, Human Rights, and Community Development -- 3.2.Legitimizing International Institutions.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780230340688
0230340687 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- UP-PAT copy: A gift made in honor of Joseph V. Paterno by Virginia and R. John Chapel Jr.; 2011.
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