World Scouting ― Educating for Global Citizenship

This is the very first book to look at scouting worldwide and explain in a comprehensible way the largest youth movement on the planet, with a presence in over 165 countries on 5 continents. Based on the first academic research on world scouting, it covers the history of boy and girl scouting from its origins to the present, its structure and recognition policy, and its role in developing ideas of global citizenship and belonging. Using new data and storytelling, Eduard Vallory discusses the main elements that distinguish the scout movement all over the world; explains its origin, evolution, operating system, and values; and deals with its controversies.

Eduard Vallory is Visiting Scholar at New York University, USA, after having been Director of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain. He has been Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, UK, and he served as Chief of Staff of the Ministry for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia. He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and an MA from the University of Chicago, USA. He was International Commissioner of Catalan Scouting.