Skills and knowledge from hobbies How to make them recognised in schools and working places?

1. SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGESKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
FROM HOBBIESFROM HOBBIES
How to make them recognised in schools and working places?
Case the Guides and Scouts of Finland

2. The Guides and Scouts of FinlandThe Guides and Scouts of Finland
SOME BACKGROUNDSOME BACKGROUND
INFORMATIONINFORMATION
First scouts in 1907
Internationally 40 million scouts in 200
countries
Landed in Finland in 1910
The biggest youth organisation in Finland with
65 000 members
Offers programs to all its members between 7
and 22 years of age
Local associations provide the activities where
a scout learns useful skills for life

3. Activities and learning in scoutsActivities and learning in scouts
Relationships towards oneself, others,
society and nature are the core of the
educational program in scouts
Adapted to different age groups so that a
scout learns something new as well as
deepens his/her understanding all the time
Learning by doing is in the center of
everything
The older a scout gets, the bigger and
more demanding are the projects

4. When you think about scouts and scouting,When you think about scouts and scouting,
what comes to mind?what comes to mind?
And what kind of skills and knowledge do scouts possess?

5. Not only camping and hiking…
Mostly volunteer work and a hobby
Scouts contribute yearly over 3 million hours
of volunteer work (i.e. equivalent to 1800 full
time workers)
This volunteer work includes
– Providing activities on a weekly basis
– Administration of local ”clubs”
– Organising excursions, camps, trips,
events etc.
Target groups for activities range from 2-3
persons to 17 000 persons with versatile job
descriptions

6. How to make people aware of theHow to make people aware of the
skills and knowledge gathered in theseskills and knowledge gathered in these
projects?projects?
Not only schools, employers and the public in general,Not only schools, employers and the public in general,
but also scouts themselvesbut also scouts themselves

7. Several steps have been takenSeveral steps have been taken
A project with The Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA
2016-2017 to bring up different ways to benefit
from the skills learned outside the official school
system
Mentoring inside scout organization as well as
mentors from outside
Learning center planning
Validated (credited) courses
Badges

8. Badges
Provide an easy way to tell
all the wonderful things
scouts do and learn in their
hobby
An accepted way in general
Familiar way for scouts
Own badges and badges in
co-operation with other
organisations
 Target group scouts over 15 years
 One must apply for the badge and show his/her skills
 Also enables peer evaluation

9. Different badges for different purposesDifferent badges for different purposes
Chairman
Secretary
Fundraiser

10. Roihu was a Finnjamboree with 17 000 participants in 2016
Volunteer in
an event
Learning in
volunteer work
Group leader
at a camp
Youth worker
at a camp

11. Badges with different
requirement
levels
Master of camp
kitchen
Cook in camp
kitchen
Gourmet cook on
an excursion
Cook on an
excursion

12. Specialised
badges
with different
focus areas
Forest expert

13. Future
Active development and
the creation of more
badges
Active communication
both outside and inside
the scout organisation
Co-operation with other
organisations
Badge for World Scout
Jamboree 2019
Learning center

14. THANK YOU!
WWW.PARTIO.FI
Johanna Heinonen
eLearning Manager (volunteer)
johanna.heinonen@partio.fi