Woodbadge

The Wood Badge is a product now used in the Scouting badge, which consists of two oblong wooden beads on a leather thong with a diamond knot. Usually it is a sand-colored Gilwell neckerchief on which a piece of fabric with the MacLaren Tartan is sewn, adding a braided scarf ring made ​​of leather.

In the member organizations of the World Organization of the Scout Movement ( WOSM ), the Wood Badge will be awarded if you have attended a Wood Badge and Gilwell course of the respective association. When designing their courses, many organizations differentiate according to age level, in which the student is working. The importance and prestige of the badge differ greatly from association to association.

Conception of the Wood Badge training

Core of the Wood Badge training is the discussion of the objectives, values ​​and methods of Scouting. This usually happens in a seminar phase. Based on this consideration, the Scout method, participants develop their own projects, to provide the impetus for the work in the respective organization. With the implementation of these projects, the project phase is completed. This is followed by the documentation of the project follows, often associated with a reflection of the goals and the achievements. Based on this documentation determine the Wood Badge officer of an association then the award of the Wood badges, and as a rule not the successful implementation of the project, but its presentation is relevant.

Established International are the guidelines for the Wood Badge training in 1993 adopted by WOSM strategy "Adults in Scouting". The building upon courses are referred to the German-speaking Wood Badge course or as Gilwellkurs.

History

The first Wood Badge course was conducted in 1919 by Robert Baden -Powell in the English Gilwell Park. At the end of the course BP gave each participant a wooden bead of a chain that he took the defeated Zulu king Dinuzulu as a trophy. Since the course was a great success, it was repeated in the following years. Because of the limited supply of original beads these were soon replaced by copies in the ceremony.

Until the foundation of WOSM only the head of Gilwell Park had the right to give the Wood Badge. Since then, numerous national member associations conduct their own Wood Badge courses.

The actual name of the course would be Gilwell course because the courses were first carried out in Gilwell Park. The actual character of the course is the presentation of the cravat. The sewn on the neck cloth fabric piece with the diamond pattern of the Scottish MacLaren Tartan is an expression of remembrance of the founder of Gilwell Park William De Bois Maclaren. The scarf is symbolic of the membership of the 1st Gilwell Scout Group Parc.

Originally the wooden beads were meant only as a reminder of the course. However, they have quickly established itself as a symbol of the Gilwell course.

Special shapes

In addition to the normal Woodbadge with two wooden beads there are other forms that indicate exercised during the Wood Badge training functions:

• Three wear beads experienced staff in the Wood Badge training (assistant leader trainer; In Austria after attending three Woodbadge courses in the team).
• Four beads are worn by the head of Wood Badge training ( leader trainers; in Austria after participating in six Wood Badge courses in the team and an international seminar of training).
• Five Pearls contributes in some countries, the national manager for the Wood Badge training. In Germany and Austria this is not common. Also five beads carry the deputy head of Gilwell Park.
• Six beads has the head of Gilwell Park, in recognition of Robert Baden -Powell as the only "World Chief Scout " but these are not worn around the neck.

Akela initially wore a wolf tooth, as a sign that they had completed the highest education. Akela "Leader Trainer" wore two wolf teeth. The term for this particular form was " Akela Badge ". Since 1925, Akela also get the "normal" Wood Badge.