Obstacles to practicing school scouting activities from the point of view of scout leaders in the Babylon Governorate Center

Abstract

Despite the educational importance of school scouting, it faces many difficulties and obstacles that weaken its luster. The leader of the scout troop is considered a phenomenon in groups and is also an important phenomenon of the organization. The presence of the leader requires the existence of the organized group, which results in the presence of a person different from the rest of the group’s members. Through the researcher’s experience of more than (18) years in the field of education, he noticed that the research problem is embodied in the presence of obstacles that constitute the basic obstacles to implementing the Scout movement in schools and achieving its desired goals, in addition to the scarcity of studies through which the obstacles to practicing school Scout activities can be studied. Limit the researcher's knowledge. This study aimed to conduct a questionnaire survey on the obstacles to carrying out scouting activities in schools among scout leaders in the Babylon Governorate center, to identify the levels and obstacles to carrying out scouting activities from the point of view of the scout leaders in the Babylon Governorate center and to identify areas of weakness from the point of view of the scout leaders in the Babylon Governorate center. The researcher chose the research sample randomly, and the research community was represented by the leaders of the scouting teams in Babylon Governorate, who numbered (100) leaders from the research community. Then, the results of the questionnaire were presented, discussed, and analyzed. The most important conclusions and recommendations were the construction of a questionnaire about the obstacles to practicing school scout activities from the point of view of scout leaders. In light of the conclusions, the researcher recommends adopting the questionnaire for the purpose of identifying the obstacles to school scout activities that face scout team leaders in establishing scout activities within a program Scout curriculum.