Author: Boy Scouts of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Official Report of the National Training Conference of Scout Executives of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Official Report of the ... National Training Conference of Professional Scouters of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of America. National Training Conference of Professional ScoutersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Official Report of the ... National Training Conference of Professional Scouters of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of America. National Training Conference of Professional ScoutersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
States of Childhood
Author: Jennifer S. LightPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262358611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
How "virtual adulthood"--children's role play in simulated cities, states, and nations--helped construct a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American young people. A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of "junior republics" and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era’s fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light’s account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2568
Book Description
Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Benjamin René JordanPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469627663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship. By examining the BSA's national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials' preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and "modernizable" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too "backward" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization's past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation.
Annual Report
Author: Boy Scouts of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Scouting Frontiers
Author: Nelson R. BlockPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443804738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Despite the fact that Scouting has touched the lives of a quarter of a billion boys and girls and their leaders around the world in the past century, its history has been largely ignored. Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century is the first book to discuss the history and principal themes of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. Inspired by presentations at the ground-breaking 2008 Johns Hopkins University symposium, "Scouting: A Centennial History," the authors examine the world's greatest youth movement through the diverse experiences of its members and their organizations. From Muslim Scouts in Wales to French Scouts in Syria to Girl Guides in colonial Kenya, Scouting has responded to the challenges of international expansion and transformed itself to address cultural, political and social diversity. Scouting Frontiers focuses particularly on the intersections between Scouting’s origins and its transformations over the last century as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, race, class, and gender.