Clan (scouts)
A clan is the smallest group in scout work . The original English name of Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the scout movement, is patrol . Alternative German-language names are group , patrol (also in the spelling Patrulle ), team , Fähnlein (Switzerland), guild or Horte . The latter term was originally introduced by Eberhard Koebel for the German Young Society on November 1, 1929 .
A clan usually has between five and ten members between the ages of around 10 and 16 years. There are pure boy and girl groups or mixed groups, this is handled differently in the scout associations. This type of group formation goes back to Baden-Powell's conviction that in small groups the individual comes into its own better and is less likely to get lost. In the scouting movement this is called small group education .
Several clans together usually form a tribe , depending on the federal government, also a youth , a hag , a girl , a settlement or a troop .
Each clan has one or two so-called clan leaders, group leaders trained by a scout association. They prepare the clan lessons and go to camp and trips with the clan . The clan leaders are mostly " primus inter pares " within the clan and (depending on the scout association ) from 14 years old.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d https://www.deutscher-pfadfinderbund.de/dpb/aufbau-des-bundes/ (accessed on April 1, 2018)
- ^ Piet Strunk: The Scouts in Germany 1909 - 2009. novum publishing gmbh, 2011. ISBN 9783990032466 , p. 178