Monday, 8 April 2019

The ladder of participation and scout philosophy. YOUTH LED

Scouting Ireland recent structural changes . . . company structure, how the board works, . . . There are restrictions on youth involvement which maybe are not compatible with one of the fundamentals of Scouting in that it is YOUTH LED. How can we keep moving in the right direction and really have more scout troops and activities properly led by youth not adults.


Over the last 15 years or so its been the research by Roger Hart or similar thinking which has framed a lot of what Scouting internationally and Scouting Ireland have tried to achieve.


If you want the long read:

So in a very short way youth led programme needs to be as the Scout Method says Adults and Young People working together (link). But with the emphasis on young people voices being actively listened to from their own experiences and in their own words not via proxy. 


Adultism is "the power adults have over children".[1] More narrowly, adultism is defined as "prejudice and accompanying systematic discrimination against young people".[2] 
Adultism is defined as the "behaviors and attitudes based on the assumptions that adults are better than young people, and entitled to act upon young people without agreement".[6][7]


Is there such a thing as youthism ? Or scoutism? :) 

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism

-ism is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from the Ancient Greeksuffix -ισμός (-ismós), and reaching English through the Latin -ismus, and the French -isme.[1] It means "taking side with" or "imitation of", and is often used to describe philosophies, theories, religions, social movements, artistic movements and behaviors.[2] 

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Transcendentalismspiritualism or "spirit rapping", Mormonism
Alcoholism
Freudianism
Capitalism
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Facism
For examples of the use of -ism as a suffix:




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