World Scouting: Educating for Global Citizenship (Hardback or Cased Book)

Vallory, E.

ISBN 10: 0230340687 / ISBN 13: 9780230340688

Published by Palgrave MacMillan 3/27/2012, 2012

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World Scouting: Educating for Global Citizenship.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: World Scouting: Educating for Global Citizenship (Hardback or Cased Book)
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan 3/27/2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230340687
• ISBN 13: 9780230340688
• Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.95 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Many works have been written on scouting worldwide, but most of them were centered in a particular country or moment of history. This book, based on the first existing academic research on world scouting, 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 with more than 30 million young people worldwide. 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.
 
Furthermore, besides nature and woodcraft, the book uses Scouting as an unexpected lens through which to analyze many social issues of our world, like the ones related with identity and citizenship education. As an accommodator of multiple identities, scouting has dealt with patriotism, belonging, immigration, racism, gender, religion, fanaticism, militarism, and peace. And when examining its role as an educational agent, we find personal autonomy, critical thinking, values of coexistence, participation, leadership, and human rights, but also debate on political involvement, geopolitics, sexual orientation, and culture war.

About the Author

Eduard Vallory is Director of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He has been Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, and he served as Chief of Staff of the Ministry for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia. He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an MA from the University of Chicago. He was International Commissioner of Catalan Scouting and had participated in several world scout events. He recently published the chapter "Status Quo Keeper or Social Change Promoter? The Double Side of World Scouting's Citizenship Education" in the book Scouting Frontiers: Youth and Scout Movement's First Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), edited by Nelson Block and Tammy Proctor.