Scoutisme Français
The Fédération du Scoutisme Français ( Federation of the French Scouting Movement ; mostly shortened to Scoutisme Français , SF) is an umbrella organization of French scouting associations with more than 80,000 members, the six affiliated organizations in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and the World Organization of the Scout Movement .
Member organizations
The six member organizations are each religiously oriented, but usually also accept members of other religions:
- Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France (EEDF), secular
- Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EEIF), Jewish
- Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs Unionistes de France (EEUdF), Protestant
- Scouts et Guides de France (SGDF), Roman Catholic
- Scouts Musulmans de France (SMF), Muslim
- Éclaireurs de la Nature (EDLN), Buddhist
The association, based in Paris , also represents the scout groups in the French overseas territories on an international level, some of which are organized differently for historical reasons.
history
The first scout groups in France emerged in 1910. By 1923, a structure separated according to religion and gender had developed from a total of seven associations, which were united in the Bureau Inter-Fédéral for boys and in the Comité de Liaison for girls. The associations belonging to the Bureau Inter-Fédérale were among the founding members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, and the Comité de Liaison was among the founding members of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1928.
Under the impression of the French defeat in the western campaign , the two umbrella organizations merged in September 1940 to form the Fédération du Scoutisme Français . This initially worked with the Vichy regime , which saw the scout movement as a pillar of its youth work. After the Jewish Association was banned , the Fédération du Scoutisme Français turned to the Free France movement around Charles de Gaulle in 1942/43 , and numerous older scouts joined the Resistance . After the end of the Second World War , the umbrella organization hosted the 6th World Scout Jamboree at Moisson in 1947 , which was also known as the Peace Jamboree .
From the beginning of the 1960s, content and programs were revised in all member associations, and co-education was introduced in all associations - first in 1964 for the secular groups, lastly in 2004 for the Catholic groups. In 1992, the work of the Catholic scouts among migrants resulted in the Scouts Musulmans de France , the first Muslim scout association in Europe.
The educational reforms since 1960 also led to serious conflicts in almost all associations. The representatives of the traditional forms of work left the modernized associations in several waves and founded their own organizations, above all the Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe , the Scouts unitaires de France (both Roman Catholic), the Eclaireurs neutres de France and the Fédération des Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs (both non-religious). In addition to these nationally active organizations, numerous others with a regional focus emerged.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Scoutisme Français - Historique. (No longer available online.) Fédération du Scoutisme Français, archived from the original on August 11, 2009 ; Retrieved July 3, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
