Overview
- Contributes to an under-researched field of Scouting and Guiding traditional and ceremonial cultures past and present
- Explores Scouting and Guiding internationally, including in the United States, Australia, and Canada
- Focuses on personal experience and individual voices
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children’s lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements. It focuses on the socialising ritual and customary practices of present-day grass-roots Scout and Guide groups, asking how Britain’s largest and best-known uniformed youth organisations employ ritualised activities to express their values to their young members through language and gesture, story and song, dress, and physical artifacts. The author shows that these practices exist against a backdrop of culturally-constructed beliefs about what constitutes the ‘good child’ and ‘good childhood’ in twenty-first century Britain, with in-movement practices intended to help children develop positively and prepare for social life. The book draws on case study accounts of group performances, incorporating the voices of children and adults reflecting on their practices and experiences.
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—Dr Matthew Cheeseman, University of Derby, editor of Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scouting and Guiding in Britain
Book Subtitle: The Ritual Socialisation of Young People
Authors: Catherine Bannister
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10359-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10358-2Published: 20 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10361-2Published: 20 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10359-9Published: 19 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 205
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Youth Culture, Social History, Social Anthropology, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State