This thesis has explored participation by adult volunteer workers of the Wapehani Girl Scout Council in central Indiana. This study involved 50 adults who were active members of the council at the time of the study and 50 adults who had been members of the council and were no longer active at the time of the study.A demographic questionnaire and a personality inventory were administered to each of the 100 participants in the study. The questionnaire involved the following information about each volunteer: age, sex, education, marital status, family income per year, size of community lived in, number of years in Scouting, membership in other organizations, number of children, number of daughters, number of daughters in Scouting, age at which daughters joined Scouts, and reasons for remaining or leaving Scouting. The personality inventory was the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, and it involved 15 variables: achievement, deference, order, exhibition, autonomy, affiliation, intraception, succorance, dominance, abasement, nurturance, change, endurance, heterosexuality, and aggression.

El escultismo es una de las asociaciones juveniles más grandes y reconocidas del mundo. Su propuesta formativa, conocida como Método Scout, trabaja con niños y jóvenes a nivel personal y grupal con el objetivo de formar mejores ciudadanos. Sin embargo, tiene un déficit para presentar su material formativo, ocasionando falta de motivación entre scouts para iniciar su progresión. Por ello, el principal objetivo del presente trabajo es rediseñar el material formativo de la Asociación Scouts del Perú haciendo uso de las herramientas que brinda el diseño de información. Se espera que aplicando el diseño de información como herramienta se pueda transformar el material formativo de la Asociación Scouts del Perú brindando una alternativa que genere mayor motivación en los lobatos. La metodología utilizada es investigación experimental, ya que incluye una variable experimental, en un entorno fijo. El nivel de investigación es experimental y el enfoque que se ha elegido es mixto ya que se utilizara tanto el método cuantitativo como el cualitativo. La solución presentada es un juego para móviles en el cual los lobatos responden preguntas para ir avanzando a través de un circuito, tiene la opción de juego en equipo donde las seisenas y manadas compiten entre sí. La propuesta responde a las dificultadas encontradas en el material actual sin desligarse de las bases del escultismo. En conclusión, luego del testeo, el 100% de lobatos respondieron positivamente a la propuesta, demostrando interés hacia el material y motivación por iniciar su progresión, validando así la hipótesis presentada. / Scouting is one of the largest and most recognized youth associations in the world. Its formative proposal, known as the Scout Method, works with children and young people on a personal and group level with the aim of forming better citizens. However, they have a deficit to present their formative material, causing lack of motivation among scouts to start their progression. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to redesign the training material of the Scouts of Peru Association using the tools provided by the design of information. It is expected that applying the information design as a tool can transform the training material of the Scouts of Peru Association providing an alternative that generates more motivation in scouts. The methodology used is experimental research, since it includes an experimental variable, in a fixed environment. The level of research is experimental one and the approach that has been chosen is mixed one since both the quantitative and the qualitative method will be used. The presented solution is a game for mobiles in which the scouts answer questions to go through a circuit, has the option of team play where they compete in teams. The proposal responds to the difficulties found in the current material without breaking away from the foundations of Scouting. In conclusion, after testing, 100% of scouts responded positively to the proposal, demonstrating interest in the material and motivation to start their progression, thus validating the hypothesis presented. / Trabajo de investigación

This comparative study of Girl Guiding in Malaya, India, Nigeria, and Australia examines the dynamics of engagement between Western and non-Western women participants. Originally a program to promote feminine citizenship only to British girls, Guiding became tied up with efforts to maintain, transform, or build different kinds of imagined communities—imperial states, nationalists movements, and independent nation states. From the program’s origins in London in 1909 until 1960 the relationship of the metropole and colonies resembled a complex web of influence, adaptation, and agency. The interactions between Girl Guide officialdom headquartered in London, Guide leaders of colonized girls, and the colonized girls who joined suggest that the foundational ideology of Guiding, maternalism, became a common language that participants used to work toward different ideas and practices of civic belonging initially as members of the British Empire and later as members of independent nations.

Thesis (M.S.)--B.Y.U. Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

This study is about regional significance of two movements, the scouting and the tramping. Czech Junák was the one of the first movements joined the worldwide scout association. A. B. Svojsík, the founder of czech Junák, participated in progress of the international scout association. Czech Junák kept its own typical particularity thanks to taking some ideas from american woodcraft, created by E. T. Seton. Also tramping was another one symbol of czech culture in 20th century. Tramping is unique movement inspired with affinity for nature with evident influence of Setonۥs individualism and liberalism and nowdays asserts in culture sphere, especially in music. Both of this two movements, scouting and tramping had (and still have) great tradition in region of Týn nad Vltavou. Local scouting and tramping was mostly inspired by the river Vltava.

The aim of the theorethical part of the thesis is to describe basic charac- teristics of concept of the emotional intelligence. The thesis summarizes two main theoretical approaches to EI: Mayer, Salovey et al. (1997) and Goleman (2000, 2011). Several currently used EI measurement methods are introduced, along with some of the principal reservations against the EI measurement as such. Practical applications of emotional intelligence along with theoretical possibilities of further development of EI are also briefly discussed. The empirical part summarizes the findings of combined quantitative- qualitative research realized in a sample of scout leaders. Using MSCEIT (Mayer et al., 2012), the research revealed that the scout leaders reached significantly lower EQ score in general EI, in Strategical EI branch and in subscales Using emotions and Understanding emotions. Reversely, they achieved significantly higher EQ score in subscale Managing emotions. The outputs of the qualitative enquiry are in direct contradiction to the quantitative outputs; the respondents agreed consentaneously that the scout education improved their emotional matureness, they also provided many particular examples and links between scouting and the develop- ment of the emotional intelligence. Possible explanations for this contrast...

Diplomová práce se zabývá pohledem čtyř skautských generací na ideje skautského hnutí po roce 1945 v Československu. Výzkum je zaměřen na 18. středisko Kruh v Praze. Práce se zaměřuje na proměny skautských idejí, ale i na proměny vedení a skautského programu. Výzkum je veden metodou orální historie, přičemž narátoři jsou vybíráni z řad 18. střediska Kruh. Cílem práce není podrobně zmapovat vývoj a historii vybraného střediska, ale spíše obecně nastínit, jakým způsobem se skauti museli ideově přizpůsobit politické a společenské situaci. Dále práce zkoumá způsob, jakým se ve skautském oddíle předává tradice a jak na sebe jednotlivé generace navazují. Klíčová slova: skauting, generace, hodnoty, vedení, význam

RÉSUMÉ The diploma thesis analyses the process of creation of the Pioneer organization, and the gradual prohibition of the Scout organization Junák by the Communist regime at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s. The thesis aims to describe the view of the Junák organization by the Communist regime, and to compare both youth organizations. The first part focuses on the creation of Junák, its development up to 1945, and discusses the organization, meaning and content of the Scout educational method. The second crucial chapter describes the history of the Scout movement after World War II in the context of the post-war tendency to merge youth organizations and give them a single central leadership. The reasons and circumstances under which the Communist regime decided to suspend the activity of the Scout organization and to give full responsibility for the education of children to the Czechoslovak Youth Federation (ČSM) and its part, the Pioneer organization, are examined. The task of the Pioneer organization in the socialist society is described, so are its organization, meaning, symbols and the educational framework. The concluding chapter presents the early activities of Pioneers in the first socialist years to then discuss the socialist view of ethics and the working methods in youth work put forward by the...

LEGIO ANGELICA - HISTORY AND INSPIRATION FOR EDUCATION OF ALTAR BOYS. Main focus of this master thesis is on altar boys education in Legio Angelica. This association was founded in 1929 by a Benedictine priest Method Klement (1889-1979). It existed until 1948 and gave a number of personalities to the Church in Czechoslovakia. First the thesis briefly describes liturgical and scout movement, which had a significant impact on the organization. Furthermore it presents: the history of Legio Angelica with regard to the life stories of its directors, the functioning of the association, the magazine Legio Angelica (which is the main source of the work) and other themes from the associations history. The principal part of the thesis are the third chapter which reflects the educational objectives in Legio Angelica and the fourth chapter that deals with the particular tools of this education. Eventually the author returns to the scouting which has turned into interesting enrichment of the association. Keywords Legio Angelica, Fr. Method Klement, altar boys, education, catholic scouting

Jag har genomfört en textanalys med syftet att studera utveckling och förändring av värdegrund och läroplan i två dokument: Lord Baden-Powells bok Scouting for boys (1908) och ”Bit för bit. Boken om scoutmetoden” (2005) utgiven av Svenska Scoutrådet. Som vetenskaplig litteratur har jag använt mig av läroplansanalys, värdegrundsteori och utdrag ur John Deweys pragmatism. För att sätta in min undersökning i ett större sammanhang med lärarperspektiv har jag speglat mina resultat mot den pedagogiska utvecklingen inom den svenska obligatoriska skolan. Mina slutsatser visar att svensk modern scouting har förändrat sin läroplanskod och värdegrund, i samma riktning som den svenska skolan gjort i stora delar, från de ursprungliga versionerna som Lord-Baden Powell formulerade 1908. Detta beror på att värdegrunder och läroplaner är produkter av sin samtid.