Conclusion

 

The abilities listed are not exhaustive, but provide the basis on which national Scout associations can develop concrete educational objectives which take into account the needs of young people at various stages of development within a specific socio-cultural environment. 

As the areas of development reflect dimensions of the whole personality, in a real person the abilities listed depend upon or involve development in more than one area. It is the well-balanced and harmonious development of the whole personality towards greater autonomy, solidarity, responsibility and commitment that would describe what Baden-Powell called a person of “character”.

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5.Spiritual

Developing the ability to:

• Acknowledge and explore a dimension beyond mankind.
• Explore the spiritual heritage of one’s community.
• Understand the beliefs, practices and customs of other world religions.
• Integrate spiritual values into one’s daily life and in the global direction of one’s development towards a higher and more unified state of consciousness.

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4.Social

Developing the ability to:

• Listen and to express oneself effectively.
• Accept other people as distinct human beings with equal rights;
• Take into account the interdependence of mankind, and of mankind and the natural world.
• Cooperate, to support and to lead.
• Take an active and constructive role in society and contribute towards a better quality of life for all.
• Foster authentic relationships and an intercultural awareness, overcoming prejudice and discrimination.
• Adhere to common rules out of one’s own free will.

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3.Emotional

Developing the ability to:

• Acknowledge, recognise and express feelings and emotions and to take responsibility for managing these in daily life.

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2.Intellectual

Developing the ability to:

• Pursue interests, solve problems and adapt to situations in a relevant way through effective information management, creative thinking and intuition.
• Perceive patterns, connections and relationships between phenomena, events, ideas, etc.
• Develop receptivity to other perspectives of reality (e.g. understanding different ways of looking at things; understanding cultural, religious, age, gender-related standpoints, etc.).
• Extract meaning from one’s experiences.
• Judge things for oneself, to think through the implications of one’s decisions and actions, and to retain one’s own free will.
   

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1.Physical

Developing the ability to:

• Coordinate one’s movements and thought processes (psycho-motor skills).
• Take responsibility for the growth, functioning and health of one’s body;
• Come to terms with one’s physical limitations.

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A Direction Of Development In Each Area

As Scouting’s principles give direction to the development of the young person, the principles are also reflected in what Scouting seeks to help young people to achieve in each of the areas of development.

1. Physical
2. Intellectual
3. Emotional
4. Social and 
5. Spiritual.

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Duty To God

Each person has a responsibility to search beyond what is material for a force higher than mankind. This involves seeking: 

• A Spiritual Reality that gives meaning and direction to one’s life; and
• To discover meaning in spiritual values and to live one’s daily life in accordance with these values.

When these three simple principles are truly part of a way of life and are adhered to simultaneously, any form of fundamentalism or fanaticism is necessarily excluded.

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Duty To Others

In broad terms, this is one’s responsibility towards everything material that is not oneself. This means:

• Recognising and taking into account in the way in which one lives one’s life that one is not the only important person on this earth, that each person has rights, feelings, hopes, needs, etc.;
• Recognising that people are interdependent, i.e. no one can live in isolation from others. Everyone needs relationships with others in order to fulfil themselves as persons and everyone can benefit from the contribution that each person makes to the world. 

Each person, therefore, has a responsibility towards others.This involves:

• Respecting each person’s dignity.
• Playing an active and constructive role in society and making a personal contribution to it.
• Helping out in times of need and defending the defenceless, whether they are one’s next-door  neighbour or whether they live in a very different environment at the other end of the world.
• Recognising and taking into account, in the way in which one lives one’s life, the integrity of the natural world.

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Duty To Self

Each person has a duty to develop one’s autonomy and assume responsibility for oneself. This includes:

• Taking responsibility for one’s own development (physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual); 
• Striving to live life in a way which respects oneself as a person (e.g. taking care of one’s health, standing up for one’s rights as a human being, making decisions that one feels deep inside are right for oneself as a person, etc.).

Being able to do so presupposes striving to get to know oneself better in all the richness and complexity that characterizes each person with strengths and weaknesses, hopes, needs, and so on.

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