Girl Guide and Girl Scout Method
The Girl Guide and Girl Scout Method is Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting’s way of facilitating nonformal learning and achieving our purpose. The method works as a balanced system to support self-directed learning. Its five interdependent elements interact with each other designed to support the learner to take the lead in their learning and to draw meaning from their experiences. Used well, it creates a learning environment where learners can take the lead, which ensures the learning is relevant to their needs, interests and context. It also creates the conditions for whole person development in a social context, stimulating peer exchange and group decision making, developing teamwork and giving the experience of positive co-existence.
As a non-formal education Movement, all learning experiences in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting should use our method. Traditionally, this may be most associated with a Member Organisation’s youth programme however our method works because it makes the learning process relevant and accessible to different learners, engaging with them in a rounded way – and this applies to learners of all ages. Adults should also experience the method in all learning opportunities they have in the Movement – at local, national and global level. Powerful and transformative learning experiences can motivate adult members to stay active in the Movement and pass on their learning to youth members.