TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………………………………..…..1

ARGUMENT…………………………………………………………………………………….……...3

PRECIS. …………………………………………………………………………………….…………..4

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………………5

CHAPTER 1……………………………………………………………………….................................6

ABOUT SCOUTS…………………………………………………………………...6

Foundation and principles………………………………………………………………………………..6

Badges……………………………………………………………….…………………………………...7

Development…………………………………………………………………………………………......8

Sea scouts………………………………………………………………………………………………...9

CHAPTER 2………………………………………………………………………...............................10

THE SCOUT LAW……………………………………………………10

History……………………………………………………………….………………………………….10

Laws……………………………………………………………….……………………………..…….11

CHAPTER 3………………………………………………………………………...............................13

INTERNATIONAL SCOUTING……………………………………………………13

International Events.……………………………………………………………………………………13

International Organization………………………………………………………………………...……14

CHAPTER 4………………………………………………………………………....................16

GIRL SCOUTS………………………………………………………………………16

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Girl Guides and Girl Scouts……………………………………………………………………….……16

Girl age groups………………………………………………………………………………………….17

CHAPTER 5………………………………………………………………………...............................18

AGE GROUPS AND MEMBERSHIP………………………………………………18

Age groups and sections……………………………………………………………………………..…18

Membership………………………………………………………………………………………...…..19

CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………………….…..20

BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………………………………..21

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Argument

I chose to write about scouts because I am a member at the Romanian Scout

Association. I started my activitiy as a scout in may 2010.

I have become a Clan Leader( responsible for teenagers between 17-23 years old) in

2012 and since then I have been much more involved in the clans progress.

I have lead numerous activities and camps and I belive that the scout movement plays

an essential role in both children and adults lives.

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Precis

The first chapter refers to how the scouting movement began.

The second chapter is about the scout law and how it differs from country to country.

Every law is explained.

The third chapter is about global scouting. It is explained what influences it had on an

international level.

In the fourth chapter I will be presenting girl scouts.

The fifth and last chapter is about membership around the world.

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Introduction

The boy scouts movement was started for the purpose of training boys in the essential of good

citizenship, and it arose in 1908 after the appearance of a book, Scouting for Boys written by the then

inspector general of cavalry in the British army, Lieut. General R.S.S. Baden-Powell (1857-1941), then

more widely known in England as the defender of Mafeking in the South African War.

Baden Powell had intended his ideas to be used by existing youth organisations, but it was soon

obvious that a new movement had come into being and, although it had been started in Great Britain

for British boys, it very quickly spred to other countries. Chile was the first to take up scouting after

Great Britain, and Canada, Australia, New Zeeland and South Africa were the first in the

commonwealth, but by 1910 it had spread to France, Sweden, Norway, Mexico, Argentina and the U.S.

5Baden-Powell  (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941)

CHAPTER 1

ABOUT SCOUTS

Foundation and principles

It has been said that scouting began with a man, an island and a book. Certainly with the publication of

the book the boy scouts came into being, but before this Baden-Powell had held and experiamnetal

camp in Brownsea island in Poole Harbour, Dorsetshire, during which he put into practice his ideas on

the training of boys. These had accumulated from the experiences of his own life – his school days at

Charterhouse, his holidays with his brothers trekking, canoeing and sailing, his life as a soldier in India

and Africa – supplemented by ideas beyond his time and a notable skill in trecking and reconnaissance.

Baden-Powell’s idea of training boys was that they shoud organize themselves into small natural gangs

of six or seven under a leader. Their training would be complementary to their ordinary education: such

things as mapping, singnalling, knotting, first aid and all the skill that would arise from camping and

other outdoor activities. But, promise that on his honour he would do his best to do his duty to God or

his country(or sovereign), to help other people at all times and to obey the scout law, itself a simple

code of chivalrous behaiviour easily understood by the boy.

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Scouts making konts

Badges

In every country where scouting exists the same basic pattern remains: a promise and a law, with such

small variations as national traditions and culture demand; an emphasis on the delights of the outdoor

life and the pursuit of the outdoor activities such as camping, swimming, sailing, climbing, canoeing,

gliding and exploring caves; a progressive training rewarded by the grating of certain badges; and the

daily good turn which from the beginning took the fancy both of the general public and the boys

themselves.

In every country, too, the highest point of proficiency is marked by the award of a special badge; e.g.,

the Eagle scout badge in the United States and the Queen’s scout badge in Great Britain. From the

begining the left handshake, togheter with some form of the fleur-de-lis badge and of the moto “Be

Prepared”, were adopted as the signs of being a scout. The club meetings of the earlier days soon

developed into troop nights with their own atmosphere and ethos. Underlying all, has remained that

training in observation which Baden-Powell placed so much stress.

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Scout Earns All Merit Badges Possible

The scout movement was intended for boys from 11 to 14 or 15, but it was soon realized that program

for younger and older boys were needed. By 1916 Baden-Powell had solved the problem of the

younger boy by the introduction of wolf cubs, or the cub scouts as they are called in the United States,

with their own motto of “Do Your Best”, their own uniform, their own badges and system of training.

Once again this was taken up by other countries with possibly more modifications that had been so

with the original souting. In Great Britain and many other European countries the wolf cub pack is

based on Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books. In the United States parent participation is a much more

essential part of the cub program, and other coutries have their variation without departing from the

basic idea of the wolf cub pack as a preparation for the scout troop.

Troops for handicapped scouts were started for the blind, deaf and dumb, the crippled and the spastics

in 1925, and, with modification in the scout program, scouting has shown its true greatness for these

boys.

The older boys were served by a section of rover scouts and later by what are kwon in the United States

as explorer scouts, all of whom carry on their scouting with realistic expeditions on sea and land, at

home and abroad. Scouting for older boys emphasizes personal fitness, social, vocational and cultural

activities, and a sense of practice of citizenship and service to the community.

Sea scouts

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Troop for handicapped scouts

Sea scouts had been started in Great Britain in 1910, and the idea spread. Sir activities of various kinds

were included in the scout program in some coutries during the 1930s, but it was not until 1941 in

Great Britain and 1939, in the United States that air scouts became a recognized section. The explorer

scout program in the United States, which was expanded to cover such diverse interests as science, auto

mechanics, emergency service and conservation, with membership geared to enrollement of high-

school age boys, includes the 127,000-ac. Philmont Scout ranch in the rocky mountains near Cimarron,

N.M.

Sea Scout Ship Six the Kelcema

From the early days Baden-Powell had seen the necessity of training the responsible and enthusiastic

volunteers who are scout-masters, and in the early 1920s he developed a system of training in camp

known as the wood badge training, which, with its headquarters at Gilwell park in Epping forest in

England, has been copied with title local variation throughout the world.

CHAPTER 2

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Sea Scouts

THE SCOUT LAW

History

The origin of the Scout Law derives from the parallel and closely connected development of the North

American and British youth outdoor programs. When writing Scouting for Boys, General Baden-

Powell drew inspiration from the work of Ernest Thompson Seton, who had founded the Woodcraft

Indians in Canada and the U.S. in 1902, and later was instrumental in spreading Scouting throughout

North America. Baden-Powell, on encouragement from Seton in 1904, began forming his Boy Scouts

in England. Seton's laws in his 1907 Woodcraft guide (The Birch-Bark Roll) seem unrelated to the

Scout Law, being more a list of practical injunctions (Seton pp. 12–13, ee.gg., "Don't rebel," "Don't

kindle a wild fire," etc.) than the affirmative, high-minded ideals of the eventual Scouting version. Still,

in this primitive form was the source of the idea of a set of codes.

Laws

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1. A SCOUT'S HONOUR IS TO BE TRUSTED. If a scout says "On my honour it is

so," that means it is so, just as if he had taken a most solemn oath. Similarly, if a scout officer says to a

scout, "I trust you on your honour to do this," the Scout is bound to carry out the order to the very best

of his ability, and to let nothing interfere with his doing so. If a scout were to break his honour by

telling a lie, or by not carrying out an order exactly when trusted on his honour to do so, he would

cease to be a scout, and must hand over his scout badge and never be allowed to wear it again.

2. A SCOUT IS LOYAL to the King, and to his officers, and to his country, and to his

employers. He must stick to them through thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy, or who

even talks badly of them.

3. A SCOUT'S DUTY IS TO BE USEFUL AND TO HELP OTHERS. And he is to do

his duty before anything else, even though he gives up his own pleasure, or comfort, or safety to do it.

When in difficulty to know which of two things to do, he must ask himself, "Which is my duty?" that

is, "Which is best for other people?"---and do that one. He must Be Prepared at any time to save life, or

to help injured persons. And he must do a good turn to somebody every day.

4. A SCOUT IS A FRIEND TO ALL, AND A BROTHER TO EVERY OTHER

SCOUT, NO MATTER TO WHAT SOCIAL CLASS THE OTHER BELONGS. If a scout meets

another scout, even though a stranger to him, he must speak to him, and help him in any way that he

can, either to carry out the duty he is then doing, or by giving him food, or, as far as possible, anything

that he may be in want of. A scout must never be a SNOB. A snob is one who looks down upon another

because he is poorer, or who is poor and resents another because he is rich. A scout accepts the other

man as he finds him, and makes the best of him -- "Kim," the boy scout, was called by the Indians

"Little friend of all the world," and that is the name which every scout should earn for himself.

5. A SCOUT IS COURTEOUS: That is, he is polite to all—but especially to women

and children and old people and invalids, cripples, etc. And he must not take any reward for being

helpful or courteous.

6. A SCOUT IS A FRIEND TO ANIMALS. He should save them as far as possible

from pain, and should not kill any animal unnecessarily, even if it is only a fly---for it is one of God's

creatures.

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7. A SCOUT OBEYS ORDERS of his patrol-leader, or scout master without question.

Even if he gets an order he does not like, he must do as soldiers and sailors do, he must carry it out all

the same because it is his duty; and after he has done it he can come and state any reasons against it:

but he must carry out the order at once. That is discipline.

8. A SCOUT SMILES AND WHISTLES under all circumstances. When he gets an

order he should obey it cheerily and readily, not in a slow, hang-dog sort of way. Scouts never grouse

at hardships, nor whine at each other, nor swear when put out. When you just miss a train, or some one

treads on your favourite corn---not that a scout ought to have such things as corns--- or under any

annoying circumstances, you should force yourself to smile at once, and then whistle a tune, and you

will be all right. A scout goes about with a smile on and whistling. It cheers him and cheers other

people, especially in time of danger, for he keeps it up then all the same. The punishment for swearing

or bad language is for each offence a mug of cold water to be poured down the offender's sleeve by the

other scouts.

9. A SCOUT IS THRIFTY, that is, he saves every penny he can, and puts it in the bank,

so that he may have money to keep himself when out of work, and thus not make himself a burden to

others; or that he may have money to give away to others when they need it.

CHAPTER 3

INTERNATIONAL SCOUTING

International Events

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Scouting spread rapidly throught the world. The outbreak of Wolrd War 1 six years after its

introduction retarded scout development title. It was indeed a testing time for the young movement

through which, in every country where it existed, it came with flying colours. In the early 1920s its

international character became increasingly appearent. In 1920 the first international scout meeting, or

jamboree, was held in London. It was on this occasion that Sir Robert Baden-Powell was acclaimed

chief scout of the world by virtue of his unique position as the acknowledged founder of the movement.

World jamborees, held approximately every four years, are gatherings of thousands of scouts

representing their countries and caping togheter as one family whatever their colour, class or creed.

From the beginning, the scout movement was nonmilitary, nonpolitical, interdenominational and

interracial. In these camps the scout law is the only one rule, and the boys give a fine example of happy

living, kindness and tolerance. For the rover scous there have been similar camps known as moots.

There have benn indabas, or international camps of scoutmasters, and there ar also agoons, which are

international camps for the handicapped boys. There have also been innumerable national camps which

parties of scouts from neighbouring countries attend. Possibly it has been these smaller camps, rathe

than the vast jamborees, which have helped most to keep the scout law of international brotherhood

before the national movements.

International Organization

One outcome of the 1920 jamboree was the formation of the Boy Scouts’ international conference and

comitee, and the foundation of the Boy Scouts international bureau. The purpose of the conference is to

promote world unity of purpose and common understanding in the fundamental principles of scouting

as set out by the founder. The conference, which ordinarily meets biennially, is composed of six

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delegates from each country in which there is at least one registered ascout asscociation, all coutries

having equal status and voting power. An international comitee of 12 members, which functions as the

permanent central comitee of the world movement is elected by the conference and is empowered to act

between meetings of the full conference. The international bureau, under its director, is the permanent

secretariat of the conference and comitee and, after being established in London and remaining there

for some years, was moved in 1958 to Ottawa, Canada. It shoud be emphasized that each country,

under its own chief scout, is autonomous.

The essential rightness of the programs and principles of scouting has been proved by its continuity and

by its attraction to an increasing number of boys of all the five continents. Wherever scouting is

allowed boys flock to become scouts. Scouting was not permitted under the fascist regimes in Italy and

Germany, nor was later allowed under communist regimes but elsewhere it continued to attract an

expand; by the 1960s there were about 8,500,000 active members in the world as a whole. Scouting’s

essential ideas – the development of a boy’s initiative and self-dependence, the development of a spirit

of selfelessness and helpfulness to others to make him a modern good Samaritan, not only willing to

help others, but able by his training to do so even at the risk of hso own life, the idea of brethehood

among the nations, which is inherent in scouting – remained as fundamental as they were when the

movement began. The details (of scout uniform, for example) might vary from country to country and

might change from decade to decade, but the spirit of scouting – its adventure and helpfulness to others

– still continued to inspire and attract boys against the backround of an everchanging world.

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CHAPTER 4

GIRL SCOUTS

Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, worldwide organizations for girls, dedicated to training them in

citizenship, good conduct, and outdoor activities. Robert (later Lord) Baden-Powell founded the Girl

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Guides in Great Britain in 1910 in response to the requests of girls who were interested in the Boy

Scout movement established by him in 1908. The first Girl Scout troop in the United States was formed

in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia, and followed the pattern set up for the Girl

Guides; the organization later adopted the name Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Other

countries subsequently adopted Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting programs, and the World Association

of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts was formed in 1928. A century after the association’s founding, there

were an estimated 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts worldwide.

Aims and activities are substantially the same in all countries in which the movement is organized. The

girls promise to follow a code of behaviour, undertake community service projects, and try to develop

their skills by earning proficiency badges in a wide variety of activities including outdoor recreation,

writing, cooking, performing arts, first aid, and finance—the latter often revolving around the annual

fund-raising sale of cookies, for which Girl Scouts and Girl Guides are best known to many. Badge and

uniform types vary by country and are often determined by age group.

Girl age groups

In the United States there are six age groups, which correspond to school grades: Daisy (grades K–1),

Brownie (2–3), Junior (4–5), Cadette (6–8), Senior (9–10), and Ambassador (11–12). Adults are also

permitted to join the Girl Scouts as mentors, volunteers, or troop leaders.

In Great Britain there are the Rainbows (ages 5–7; 4–7 in Northern Ireland), Brownies (7–10), Guides

(10–14), and Senior Section (14–25). Non-volunteer adults may join for an annual subscription fee.

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In Australia the formal grouping system has been largely discontinued, with all Girl Guides under age

18 referred to simply as Guides, and adults 18–30 are eligible for membership in the Olave Program.

Those over 18 also may become Adult Members or Trefoil Members (the latter if they have served as

either a Guide or a leader). Individual troops, however, are free to continue using the age group names

or to make up their own.

CHAPTER 5

AGE GROUPS AND MEMBERSHIP

Age groups and sections

The traditional age groups as they were between 1920 and 1940 in most organizations:

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Age range Scouting section Guiding section

8 to 10 Wolf Cubs Brownie Guide

11 to 17 Boy Scout Girl Guide or Girl Scout

18 and up Rover Scout Ranger Guide

“The national programs for younger children include Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, Brownies, Daisies,

Rainbow Guides, Beaver Scouts, Joey Scouts, Keas, and Teddies. Programs for post-adolescents and

young adults include the Senior Section, Rover Scouts, Senior Scouts, Venture Scouts, Explorer

Scouts, and the Scout Network. Many organizations also have a program for members with special

needs. This is usually known as Extension Scouting, but sometimes has other names, such as Scoutlink.

The Scout Method has been adapted to specific programs such as Air Scouts, Sea Scouts, Rider Guides

and Scoutingbands .

In many countries, Scouting is organized into neighborhood Scout Groups, or Districts, which contain

one or more sections. Under the umbrella of the Scout Group, sections are divided according to age,

each having their own terminology and leadership structure.”

Membership

As of 2010, there are over 32 million registered Scouts and as of 2006 10 million registered

Guides around the world, from 216 countries and territories.

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Rover Scouts

Top 20 countries with Scouting and Guiding, sorted by total male and female membership

of all organisations.

Country Membership

Population

participation

Scouting

introduced

Guiding

introduced

Indonesia 17,100,000 7.2% 1912 1912

United States 7,500,000 2.4% 1910 1912

India 4,150,000 0.3% 1909 1911

Philippines 2,150,000 2.2% 1910 1918

Thailand 1,300,000 1.9% 1911 1957

Bangladesh 1,050,000 0.7% 1920 1928

United

Kingdom1,000,000 1.6% 1907 1909

Pakistan 575,000 0.3% 1909 1911

Kenya 480,000 1.1% 1910 1920

South Korea 270,000 0.5% 1922 1946

Germany[n.b. 2] 250,000 0.3% 1910 1912

Uganda 230,000 0.6% 1915 1914

Italy[n.b. 3] 220,000 0.4% 1910 1912

Canada 220,000 0.7% 1908 1910

Japan 200,000 0.2% 1913 1919

France[n.b. 4] 200,000 0.3% 1910 1911

Belgium[n.b. 5] 170,000 1.5% 1911 1915

Poland[n.b. 6] 160,000 0.4% 1910 1910

Nigeria 160,000 0.1% 1915 1919

Hong Kong 160,000 2.3% 19141916

CONCLUSION

I have come to the conlusion that the scouting movement has a fundamental role in a persons’

development. I can say that because it has been proven on myself: it forged my character, it made me

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more responsible, it taught me to respect the moral values and I think most important for me is that it

taught me to lead people. Also, as a leader, I have learned to organize activities, meetings and in the

end, camps.

I would personally recommend to anybody taking part in this very educative world.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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