School-Based Scouting
JosĂŠ Eduardo C. Delgado Chairman, APR Programme Sub-Committee World Organization of the Scout Movement Asia-Pacific Region
Objectives of the Session • • • •
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Define what is school-based Scouting; Explain the modes of school-based Scouting; List the advantages and disadvantages; Compare quantity vs. quality (the challenge of ensuring quality in a school-based Scouting); Discuss how can we help to grow our membership; Discuss Scouting in Schools in the Asia-Pacific Region; and Discuss Scouting in Schools in other regions;
Define what is school-based Scouting? •
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Essentially it is an indirect subsidy from the Local Government to financially support the National Scout Organization. Other definitions?
Perceived modes of Scouting • • • •
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in educational system; delivered by schools; in open groups; and sponsored by community groups
Other modes?
Pros and Cons of school-based Scouting Advantages • Easy source of funds • Teachers are obligated to become Unit Leaders • Discuss other advantages?
Pros and Cons of school-based Scouting Disadvantages • Dependence on the vagaries caused by the Dept of Education in the country of the NSO which may cause large swings in the revenue of the NSO • Quality Scouting is probably not effective based on the total number of Scout Members since actual active members may be much lower. • Big numbers in Membership but low numbers in Advancement and Tenure • Discuss other disadvantages?
Quantity vs. Quality in school-based • •
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Let's study BSP Data; Let's have a discussion on what knowledge can we derive from these numbers (Go to the Excel File)
How to grow our membership? •
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Focus on creating membership from other sources, look at how short each local council/district is from its goal and potential figures; Other ideas?
SiS in the Asia-Pacific Region Australia Bhutan Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Korea Malaysia Mongolia Nepal Papua New Guinea Philippines
SiS in the Asia-Pacific Region Bangladesh Maldives Pakistan Sri Lanka Singapore Thailand
SiS in other regions AFRICA Kenya Scouts Association – teacher training curriculum in place, following SIS seminar in 2003 South African Scout Association – Scouting has a great deal of government support (especially at the provincial level) in the form of provision of amenities and personnel. Scouting uses government facilities like schools, funding and even its educational inspectors.
AFRICA Uganda Scouts – promise from the President for Ministry of Education to support SIS Zanzibar Islands (Tanzania Scout Association) – school inspectors award marks to schools with Scouting, leading to rapid growth of Scouting in the island Namibia recently received approval from the Ministry of Education to proceed with SIS, the project will start in 2010
SiS in other regions ARAB The Arab Region has a good number countries with scouting in schools - the Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain have Scouts in schools where the Scout leaders are originally teachers - some countries like Jordan and Egypt have both community and school based Scouting - this issue needs a deep investigation to know exactly how things work
SiS in other regions EUROPE The Scout Association- TSA (United Kingdom) – Schools in England have started the 'Extended Schools' concept since 2007, especially to support families of working couples and single mothers - TSA is exploring the opportunity of taking Scouting to such schools
SiS in other regions INTERAMERICA •
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Boy Scouts of America (United States of America) – life skills training ('Learning For Life' curriculum) L'Association Scouts du Canada – There is a didactical tool with 8 activity modules to help (non-Scout trained) teachers to introduce Scouting to school students. At the end of the 8th module, the school organises a weekend camp as a joint activity with a local Scout group. There is a small handbook (or guidelines) for the teachers. Additionally, there are 18 supplementary training modules if the teacher is interested to become a trained Scout leader.
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What is community-based Scouting? Why is it important to promote community-based Scouting as an alternative to extending Scout membership beyond school?
Thank you!
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