Boy scout education is a new social education model. The movement is an international youth social movement carried out according to specific methods, which has a profound impact on the growth of young people. Scouting education is a useful supplement to school education and family education. Scouting education has matured and developed for many years abroad. In China, where the demand for education is increasing, this excellent education method is bound to be favored by more and more new parents. of favor.
Finding the true meaning of scout spirit
The Boy Scouts of America was established on February 8, 1910. It set up military emblems, military flags, uniforms, slogans, guidelines, and ranks. Its members are young people aged 7-20. It is the largest Scout organization in the world. The Boy Scouts of America are divided into “Tiger Scouts, Young Boy Scouts, Young Boy Scouts, Huashidi Boy Scouts and Discovery Boy Scouts” according to age groups , forming the motto of “Always be prepared” and the slogan of “Doing good every day” , won the reputation of “a training camp for shaping outstanding American citizens and outstanding leaders”.
In the United States, in addition to participating in summer camps during the summer vacation, members of the Boy Scouts also regularly conduct some military skills and survival education training, mainly including moral education, physical development and health, Common sense of life safety, field survival skills and personal ability training, etc., involving marching, camping, picnics, first aid, signaling, cycling, swimming, camping, hiking, observing the natural environment, boating, handicrafts, mastering forest and river knowledge , hunting, fishing, obtaining food, and making various utensils and other items.
The United States has set up a number of special camps for Scout training , including the Mountain Boy Scout Camp and the Island Boy Scout Camp. Among them, the Mountain Boy Scout Camp is located in West Ridge Forest Park in the northwest of Los Angeles , covering an area of 110 acres. The camp has existed for nearly 70 years. There are activity halls, wooden dormitories, and kitchens that can accommodate two to three hundred people at the same time. , cold storage, swimming pool, shooting range (for archery and shooting), open-air conference center, a large number of barbecue tables and outdoor tables and chairs, different scout activity areas, handicraft classrooms and other living and activity facilities with different functions.
Sea Island Scout Camp, known as one of the “Best Scout Camps in America,” was established in 1925. Camp facilities include: watersports, craft workshops, scout craft skills, underwater science, athletics and more.
Make up for the “loophole” of quality education
Influenced by the education of boy scouts in Europe and the United States, China also founded boy scouts, and its founder was Yan Jialin. On February 25 , 1912, referring to the educational form of the British and American Boy Scouts, Yan Jialin organized 60 boys under the age of 16 to take an oath in the library of Wenhua Academy in Wuchang and established the first detachment of the “Chinese Boy Scouts”. In November 1915, the “All-China Boy Scouts Association” was established in Shanghai, with branches in Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hankou and other places. The influence of the Boy Scouts gradually expanded and began to develop across the country.
At present, in China, the Boy Scout Movement organization that is relatively well known by the Chinese people should be the Scout Association of Hong Kong. The Scout Association of Hong Kong was established in accordance with the Hong Kong Scout Association Ordinance, Chapter 1005 of the Laws of the Hong Kong Government , and its headquarter is located in the Hong Kong Scout Center in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. The school mainly focuses on the life of the students on campus, while the Scout Association of Hong Kong focuses on the life of young people after they leave the campus. The Scout Association of Hong Kong has set up many camps, such as Keewell Camp, Tai Tam Scout Center and Tung Tsz Scout Center.
Hong Kong Kiwell Camp is an important camp for Hong Kong Scouts . It is located on Fei Ngo Mountain in Kowloon, with an area of about 200,000 square meters and an altitude of 420 meters. It is managed by the Kowloon region. There are 18 camp areas in the camp, and there are lecture halls, activity rooms, activity squares, flag-raising grounds, 10 barbecue pits, campfire sites, field orientation trails, bathrooms, toilets, and various places for training and entertainment .
Tung Tsz Scout Center is an activity center of Hong Kong Scouts. It is managed by the Hong Kong Scout Association in the New Territories . It was officially opened on March 9, 1975, and was then called the Hong Kong Scout Training Center. Newly renovated in 2007, there are 7 family camps for 4 people with a total of 28 places, a group camp that can accommodate 108 people, 7 camping areas that can accommodate up to 175 people, and 200 day campers to enjoy various recreational facilities.
One step at a time, the medal grows with honor
The World Scouts has a complete set of medal system, which is set up to stimulate the learning motivation of Scouts, implement personalized education, pay attention to personal efforts, and cultivate personal interests.
The medal system is designed and formulated based on juvenile psychology, academic progress, and scientific education methods. Chubby cartoon Russell has a ribbon full of various badges. This “badge of character” is the carrier , and it is also its most attractive place for young people. Boy Scouts can apply to participate in any local activities that interest them at any time. And after completing all the requirements of the activity, you will get a beautifully designed “character badge”. Currently, the Scout organization has more than 130 different badges, covering various sports, outdoor activities, learning subjects, nature projects, hobbies and other fields, and even computer programming, game design and so on.
In the Boy Scouts of America, the highest rank achievable in Scouting is known as Eagle Scout. Achieving this rank begins with earning 21 medals of merit and demonstrating the Scout spirit through the Scout Pledge, Discipline, Service and Leadership. Eagle Scouts receive medals and patches to certify completion of the entire Scouting phase. Other badges of certification include the eagle paw, which recognizes Scout members for completing additional timelines, leadership dominance, and more merit badges.
Many famous Eagle Scout US citizens such as US President Gerald Ford, Academy Award -winning film director Michael Moore (2000), Mayor of New York (2002) Mike Bloomberg He and Robert Gates, the 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense, are both Eagle Scout recipients.
A series of badge designs are guiding signs and milestones that lead teenagers to the wild to practice independent living. The Medal System of Boy Scouts is the direct embodiment of Scouting training, which plays a leading role in forming a positive outlook on life, values, and world outlook for young people.
Back to the origin of camp education
The essential feature of camp education is experiential learning , which allows children to ” play purposefully” and “explore themselves deeply” through creative camp activities. Scouts advocate integrating the awareness of nature into practical activities, combining activities and training, and training children’s various talents. With “learning by doing ” as the core purpose.
Learning by doing is the original cultural connotation of Scouting. What it emphasizes is by no means simply traveling or experiencing, not simply broadening horizons and acquiring knowledge, but a combination of communication, cooperation, development, and sharpening in daily practice. It is a comprehensive activity that is beneficial to children’s social ability, psychological endurance and self-survival ability, and finally cultivates healthy and perfect independent personality of young people.
Only in the camp, through deep emotional experience, can one gradually internalize one’s attitudes and values . In the project, children sometimes need to complete tasks independently, make their own decisions, and solve problems by themselves, and sometimes they need to cooperate with their peers to complete tasks collaboratively. In this process, children will inevitably make mistakes and expose their own shortcomings. Children grow through repeated trial and error and problem solving. Give children enough space and tolerance, allow them to make mistakes, guide them to deal with and solve problems correctly, and finally achieve the goal of cultivating children’s multiple abilities.
epilogue
Future camp education must be nested in children’s psychology. The effectiveness of camp education can only be ensured in the industry-university-research system of behavioral scientific research, basic research-empirical training-scientific achievement transformation. Let the concept of camp education affect the growth of children more warmly, and become the spiritual support for the growth of young people. The biggest highlight of Scout camp education is the preliminary realization of the construction of an industry-university-research system for the effectiveness of youth education in camp education, so as to ensure that the participating camps are really doing camp education, not a game of old wine in new bottles plus outdoor activities. expand.
