Haik (youth movement)
The Haik (also Hajk , scouts run , Haijk by English Hike - "walking") is one of the Swedish scout movement coming type of orienteering , by youth groups as part of the educational was taken over method. While the original haik represented a tough training in which the shark groups had to solve the tasks assigned to them for several days in the wilderness on their own, the haik in youth groups today usually represents a kind of skill and task run Solve various tasks in competition with other shark groups on the way to a specified goal.
The scope and nature of the tasks set vary widely and range from solving complex problems to just getting around the terrain. The various forms of haik have one thing in common in group pedagogy: By moving forward together with solving certain tasks, a number of characteristics are trained that are useful in educating people to think and act independently:
- thinking through a situation independently
- the independent decision for one or the other course of action
- acting independently
- the moral courage
- Contacting strangers
- Work in a team
Today the Haik is mainly carried out among scouts , youth groups and youth groups (especially in the field of Christian youth work) as well as among forest youth .
Sometimes the word haik is simply used to describe a common hike to a certain destination.
See also
literature
- Künne, Wolfgang Hajk . 8th edition 1990. ISBN 3-921496-03-9