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| 1 | East or West, Camp Is The Best! | Mr. Valery Kostin | Valery is the Country Director for Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan of Camp Counselors USA. He started his career as camp counselor, program director, and subsequently camp director of the largest camp in the world, International Artek Camp in Crimea.
He has volunteered to serve the role as the Chair of International Camping Fellowship since 2008. |
Russia | Keynote | The word spread quickly among those attending the American Camping Association National Conference in Boston in 1990 – something was about to happen that had never happened before — a Russian camp director was going to speak! Were there really camps in the U.S.S.R.? We were about to learn of the 110,000 Soviet children’s camps and to meet a man who, in the next fifteen years, would have a profound impact on camping around the world.
Valery Kostin’s first introduction to ACA was his presentation of a huge wall covering, with these words spoken in halting English, “This is Mr. Lenin. He is very famous in our country.” After a slightly stunned silence, the audience broke into laughter and immediately welcomed him. Since that introduction, Valery has attended most ACA National Conferences, accompanied by dozens of other Russian camp professionals, and endearing himself to all who know him. But few of us know the rest of the story… |
| 2 | Development and progress of forest recreation in Taiwan | Ms. Hao-Chen Lin | Director,
Division of Conservation and Recreation Forestry Bureau, Taiwan |
Taiwan | Keynote | To be advised |
| 3 | Trend and changes of camp in modern Taiwan | Dr. Morio Chen | Morio is a professor at theNational Taiwan Normal University. He founded Camping Association of Republic of China and Formosa Camping and Caravanning Club. He volunteered the president role for both organizations and hosted Federation of International Camping and Caravanning rallies in Taiwan. | Taiwan | Panel discussion: Future trend of camp in Asia Oceania and the rest of the world
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Camping has been developed in Taiwan for 60 years. Started in the 1950s, in addition to YMCA, YWCA and 4-H Club, boy scout is a course formally taught in junior high school; and annual camping was a required activity of the course. Meanwhile, the“China Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps” has accommodated over one million youths in its summer and winter camps ever since. Camping and camps have had a long history in Taiwan.
In the 1970s, leisure camping gradually became a popular outdoor activity of adults and families. More recently, to cater for parents’ needs of child care in their summer and winter vacations, camps for leisure, sports, adventure, skill learning, and knowledge building mushroomed all over the island…. |
| 4 | Future trend of camp in Japan | Ms. Sachiko Tanaka | Ms. Tanaka works for YWCA camp for 55years as a volunteer. She is one of the founders of National Camping Association of Japan and International Camping Fellowship. Ms. Tanaka believes camping is the best way to educate children through experiences and believes world peace through camping.
She is the first Japanese to receive MS in recreation and outdoor education from UCLA in 1961. She went back to UCLA to study psychological counseling and leisure counseling in 1987. She retired from Tsuda College in 2003 and works as a vice-chair of ICF and an adviser of AOCF. |
Japan | Concerning organized camping, Japan has a rather long history in Asia. At least some organized camps started in 1930s. From the historical view points, the importance of organized camps for youth and kids will be reconsidered. Recently camps for senior citizens and the handicapped are also getting important in Japan. | |
| 5 | Trends in Camping in Australia
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Mr. Bill Oakley | Bill has been involved in camping for 50 years initially with the Scouts in Australia. He was secretary for the World Jamboree in Australia in 1987.
He was one of the inaugural Vice Presidents of the Camping Association of Victoria when it formed in 1980 and continued to be involved with the Australian Camps Association as Board member and Treasurer. He also served a volunteer role as the Regional Representative for Australasia and Oceania on ICF in 1998 until 2008. and am a Board member of AOCC Bill owns a camp catering business, and as Business Manager for Gilwell Park, main campsite in Victoria for the Scouts.
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Australia | In Australia camping has developed in quite a number of ways markedly different from this Northern Hemisphere model: The first, and perhaps most dramatically different, is that during the summer school holidays is the time when least camping is done in Australia. The second is that our camps are much shorter in duration. The third difference is also quite significant. And that holiday camping is being developed and expanded through the camping industry. But a problem for us is that we do not have a long summer school holiday. In staffing, most people who work in camps in Australia are working fulltime, or are casual workers seeking to make camping a career choice, some temporarily and some permanently. In order to get the best staff, camps try to offer fulltime positions. The Camping profession has begun to develop research models to demonstrate that camping and outdoor activity. | |
| 6 | To be advised | Dr. Anthony Po | Chairman, Camping Association of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | To be advised | |
| 7 | International Games and Song | Mr. John Jorgenson (Jorgi) | John Jorgenson is a Director at Camp Tawingo, Tawingo Outdoor Centre and Tawingo College. He has served as a President of both the provincial and national association in Canada. He is the Secretary of the International Camping Fellowship. His professional associations and conference presentations confirm his commitment to youth development at the provincial, national and international levels. | Canada | Workshop | At camp, we love to sing songs and play games. These activities are paths to peace and bridges to understanding. “Jorgi” will gather his friends from many countries together to give us a happy trip around the world of camping. Let’s sing and play together.
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| 8 | Let’s start braiding! | Ms. Tsuei-Ling Hsu, and Ms. Yu-Ru Hsu | Student,
National Taiwan Normal University |
Taiwan | Workshop | Make your own Chinese knots or a grasshopper, and utilize the coconut leaves as weaving material to create ….. |
| 9 | Successful management of children camps in the woods | Mr. Taras Kononets | Taras worked as a counselor in different children camps and became camp director in 1998. In 2005 he started his own business in camp industry. Nowadays he successfully runs the company, that consists of Camp Karolina, Camp Robin Hood, children oriented travel agency and magazine CAMP publishing office. |
Russia | Workshop | 1. Adventure Camp Robin Hood: It is probably hard to find a person who has never heard about Robin Hood, a prototype for numerous fantasy heroes with a bow and quiver, brave heart and kindly soul. While working on the program for Camp Robin Hood we referred to a lot of historical materials, analytical articles and feature films to make a real adventure for children out of the Legend of Sherwood. 2. Camp for girls Karolina: “Karolina” is Latin that means “crowned”, “queen”. Karolina’s head is crowned with white violets, that symbolize creativeness, harmony of inside and outside world. Camp Karolina is a magical kingdom for girls from 7 to 15…. 3. Russian Magazine “CAMP” |
| 10 | Camping in the USA | Mr. De Tan Nguyen | Serving as the Director, Multicultural Markets
Boy Scouts of America, De Tan is responsible for developing, strategizing, and implementing a comprehensive framework for advancing the full range of diversity and inclusion efforts for the organization. |
U.S.A. | Keynote | The “Camping in the USA” is designed to provide individuals and groups an understanding of the importance of preparation prior to taken a Camping excursion to the United States of America. This course will include camping at National parks, private Scout camps, research, planning, making camping reservations and resources of where to go camping in the USA. Participants will gain valuable insights on how to Camp in the new and exciting outdoor environment of North America.
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| 11 | Consideration comparison the expectations and thoughts can have in regards to outdoor activities. | Mr. Chao Fan | As a graduate student at Yamanashi University, Japan, Fan Chao mainly researches into the level of knowledge on outdoor activities amongst students, especially Chinese students, in order to determine what are the most suitable types of activities for them. | China | Oral Presentation | In recent years, people have been far away from the nature due to the rapid economic development. Especially, daily life of teenagers, which is relevant to interacting with the nature and outdoor activities, has been less than before. If this situation does not change, physical condition of children would become less healthy. In Japan, students take part in and experience all kinds of outdoor activities under the teachers` leadership. In Taiwan, which is a part of Asia, there are reference books and researches about the changes of the outdoor activities and outdoor landscape consciousness. Therefore, experiencing the nature, such as taking part in the outdoor activities, is beneficial for body health, while it can also help children to form their friendship better and promote their communication skills with friends. Comparing the mainland China with Europe, the United States and Japan where they began to develope the outdoor infrastructure since the 19th century, the popularity of outdoor activities is still underdeveloped although it is rich in natural resources. Moreover, from the comprehensive data of the Chinese members of outdoor activities now, we can understand that the percentage of male sex is 57.5%, while female sex is 42.5%. The percentage of male sex is higher, including the people who log in and take part in. Moreover, among these people, the percentage of the people who have been taking part in the outdoor activities since 2003 is 70.8%. However, most of the people are new in the field, and have no more than 2 years of experiences. The percentage of the people who are between the age of 20 to 40 is 84.1%, whereas its people who are under 20 is much less. This is the feature about the outdoor member group in China now. As we can see from this data, the number of the students who are under 20 and who take part in the outdoor activities is really small. It is very important to get to know the consciousness of the outdoor activities for these people.
Therefore, in order to see comparison between two Asian countries we asked Japanese and Chinese people to take questionnaires about the level of consciousness towards outdoor activities. The subjects are pupils to college students between the two countries. Through the questionnaires, we can see and compare the difference between the students of the two countries in outdoor life experiences and the consciousness of the effect of the association of ideas which was brought by the activities. By taking the result as the foundation, we can study further about the outdoor activities in Japan. Furthermore we can apply the reference materials for the betterment and popularity of the outdoor activities to Chinese people through future researches.
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| 12 | Establishment standards of the National Scout Training Camp of The Scouts of China | Mr. Rover, Jan-Hua Lien | Rover is a graduate student at the Graduate Institute of Civic Education and Leadership of National Taiwan Normal University | Taiwan | Oral Presentation | Ever since the National Training Camp transformed into YangMingShan Scout Center in order to generate more operational fund in 1993, it no longer holds the prestige of “Mecca” among scout leaders.
The purpose of this study is to raise the importance of permanent campsite for National Training Camp by examining the needs for its space, location, and management. The study uses the Architectural Programming approach, to analysis its course content, and implementation process based on the training course materials by National Training Team from 1998 to 2008, and to propose an outlines of space needed for a permanent National Training Camp. The study concludes that a National Training Camp which is capable of running Cub Scout Basic Training Course (residential camp) and Venture Scout Woodbadge Training Course (outdoor camping) at the same time, the camp needs 1.2 hectare land and a building with floor area of 2500 square meters and a wilderness area for expedition purpose. The Camp also requires having many historical memorabilia, to be distinct from regular outdoor center and to create strong identification among participants and make them be proud of being scout leaders.
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| 13 | Campus campfire: Encounter of camping education and humanity courses at Sheen-Zong Elementary School | Mr. Jing-Sing Gue | Jing-Sing is a doctoral student at the Graduate Institute of Civic Education and Leadership of National Taiwan Normal University. As the founding principal of
Sheen-Zong Experimental School at Taoyuan, Taiwan, he has infused different elements in this new school. |
Taiwan | Oral
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The essay is about the execution of the camp education and curriculum experiment of a public elementary school. I expect that you can see the possibility for carrying out the humanistic curriculum in elementary school’s education by experiential learning and outdoor curriculum of camp activities.
There are six parts of the essay. Part I illustrates that camping is a way to be close to nature. It’s the education for human/nature relationships. Part II mentions the contribution of an initiator of Taiwan camp activities, Mr. Sheng-Hsung Chen, who enforced camp education and the inspiration to the camp education curriculum of Sheen Zong Experimental School. Part III talks about that Taiwan’s forests are great spots for camping and forest camping is one of the goals of space arrangements in Sheen Zong’s camp education. Part IV describes the camping leisure image of escape and wander, and furthermore points out the value of camp education. Part V discusses the experimental point of view of camp education curriculum, and furthermore constructs the eight concrete actions of camp education curriculum and campus discipline that correspond to the experimental spirit of Sheen Zong’s humanistic curriculum education. Part VI reviews how camp education of elementary school promotes the changes in the thirteen education reforms from the curriculum in Sheen Zong Experimental School. The conclusion of the essay emphasizes again：Let our next generation can be able to be close to nature, get involved with nature and then protect nature—this is the value and meaning of an elementary school’s camp education and it’s the only way to save our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. While we are putting an effort on elementary school’s camp education activity curriculum, we are also putting the education reform of humanistic curriculum into practice gradually. |
| 14 | Marketing and Retention Issues in Camping | Mr. Jeff Bradshaw | Camp Owner/Director – Camp Wenonah. Jeff, as the President of the Canadian Camping Association/Association des Camps du Canada and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Camping Fellowship, has a unique perspective on trends in marketing and the challenges facing Camp Owners and Managers during difficult economic times. | Canada | Workshop | The workshop will focus on: – retaining campers over multiple seasons – effective uses of various media in presenting camping messages – attracting campers from diverse populations – recruiting international campers |
| 15 | To be advised | To be advised | To be advised | Russia | Workshop | To be advised |
| 16 | Deaf kids Camp | Ms. Masako Harigaya | To be advised | Japan | Poster Presentation | To be advised |
| 17 | Learning in Context: Residential Camp Experience at the international Children’s Center “Nairamdal”, Mongolia | Dr. Stephen Fine | Dr. Fine is the founder/director of The Hollows Camp, Canada, Research Chair for the Ontario Camps Association, member of the Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars at Simon Fraser University, and 2008 recipient of the Canadian Camping Association’s Jack Pearse Award of Honour for his contributions to national camp research in Canada. He has presented at several American Camp Association research symposiums and at the International Camping Fellowship congresses in Mexico City (2005) and Quebec City (2008), and the Perspectives of Children’s Camp Development Conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2007). He is seeking input and exchange from all who are interested in or currently engaged in camp research. Dr. Fine invites you to contact him at: fine@hollowscamp.com | Canada | Poster
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This study undertaken in central Asia replicates doctorial research conducted through the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The setting of the residential camp along with its extended community, past and present, provide the holistic conditions for a case study that explores contextual, or situated learning, within the personal, social-cultural and physical domains. A mixed method approach allows for both qualitative and quantitative data to support the proposition: What immediate and long-term learning results from participation in residential camp experience? Data from current and past participants accounts for a trans-generational span of over 30 year.
Findings indicate that repeated experiential episodes within the residential camp setting contributed significantly to the learning of children, adolescents and adults in the areas of: self-concept, self-regulation, self-efficacy, peer teaching, cooperation, teambuilding, modeling, celebration of socio-cultural diversity, and respect for the environment. Additionally, learning which was assimilated during relatively brief sojourns within this setting had the capacity to successfully transfer to later life situations. The data set is significantly larger than that of the Canadian study. Findings from the Mongolia study are comparable to those of the Canadian study thereby augmenting overall reliability. Learning outcomes of the residential camp experience can thus be understood as bridging both national and cultural boundaries. |
| 18 | Organized camping, certification, and accreditation | Dr. Chien-Cheng Lu | Professor,
National Taiwan Normal University |
Taiwan | Poster Presentation | This paper attempts to discuss the relationships between organized camping, certification systems for camp counselors, and accreditation standards for camp program and services by taking a critical review of the related literature. The paper consists of four parts. The first part deals with the definition of organized camping.
The second part discusses the concepts of camp counselors and certification systems, and some other related terms. A recent master thesis in Taiwan is cited to describe the hard skills and the soft skills needed for certifying camp counselors. The third part focuses on accreditation standards for camp programs and services. It is found that the standards can be divided into six categories. The fourth part concludes with the proposal of realizing certification systems for camp counselors and accreditation standards for camp programs and services by, among other things, developing s professional camping education program in the higher education institutions. |
| 19 | Bridging a Cultural Divide-North American Style Camping in Taiwan | Ms. Nara McDonald | Taiwan | Workshop | How an American and Canadian Married couple built, own operate an Outdoor Learning Center in Taiwan. How our program has developed from offering programs to expatriate children attending International schools to developing programs for Teens and Youths in a Summer camp.
Bridging the Cultural Divide; bringing North American Style summer camp to Taiwan. How two foreigners (married couple – a Canadian and an American) designed, built, own and operate a camp in Taiwan. |
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| 20 | Songs and Games | Mr. Yueh-Hsiang Chuang and Mr. Tien-Yi Huang | Students of National Taiwan Normal University and National Chenchi University | Taiwan | Workshop | |
| 21 | Camp as a brand-Brand Management | Mr. Fahrettin Gozet | Born in Bursa, he’s got a degree in English Education and masters degree in Linguistics. Played basketball at high school and won national titles with his team and got personal awards many times. He started playing professional basketball at the age of 17. In his 3rd year in the professional league he was injured and had to stop playing. He started Future Stars Basketball Schools to teach kids play basketball in 1989 at the age of 20. 4 years later he established Future Stars Sports Club and had been the president until 2005. He started the Camp Future Stars in 1993 and worked as the camp director until 2005. He attended many international camping conferences, seminars and workshops between 1996-2008 in USA and made visits to camps in many countries.
He is a regional representative and a steering committee member of ICF (International Camping Fellowship), a member of international organizations like AIC (Association of Independent Camps), AOCF (Asia Oceania Camping Fellowship) and ECA (European Camp Association). He’s been to Bulgaria and Russia to make presentations to Russian camp directors on marketing issues. He was one of the speakers at International Camping Congress 2008 in Quebec, Canada. He is the founding president of the Turkish Basketball Camps Association and board member of Turkish Basketball Federation. |
Turkey | Workshop | What is a brand? Is it possible for camps to become brands? Brand management in camping industry. How do brands do during recession periods? How to make an integrated marketing communication plan? How to find sponsors?
The importance of brand management in camping industry. How to make an integrated marketing communication plan and find sponsors which will add value to your program? How do brands do during economical recession periods compared to non-brand camps? The importance of brand management in camping industry. How to make an integrated marketing communication plan and find sponsors which will add value to your program? How do brands do during economical recession periods compared to non-brand camps? Keywords: Marketing, brand management in camp business |
| 22 | Bamboo Handicraft | Ms. Chih-Wen Chien and Ms. Chun-Ning Huang | Students of National Taiwan Normal University | Taiwan | Workshop | The bamboo dragonfly is a kind of traditional toy, it utilizes air buoyancy to make the bamboo slice fly upwards. And more, for example, a flute… |
| 23 | Planning a Service Learning and Cultural Savy Programme | Mr. Tennant Kiu | Tennant is the director of Innotrek, a company specializes in outdoor experiential learning. Innotrek aims to provide interesting, challenging and beneficial outdoor adventure and development programmes for schools, institutions and corporations. Activities are conducted using the experiential learning and adventure learning frameworks to bring classroom lessons to the outdoors and applying theories through adventure-base activities.
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Singapore | Service learning comes with purposeful learning programmes about oneself, communities and the social issues surrounding the programme. It must be done well to preserve one’s importance in the community and the community we serve. Cultural savy is the catch-phrase now. With the world getting smaller, we are bound to meet people of different culture. We must learnt to accept and respect each others’ cultural differences. This is where we can grow and learn to be a truly global citizen.
Planning a Service Learning and Cultural Savy Programme This workshop will share with you the key elements of service learning and how to harness the cultural savyness into your camp programme. We will share with you how service learning can assist campers to think how the camper can affect self and communities. This will also open up discussions on social issues which may not be evident to campers. As the world is getting smaller, we have a chance to meet people of different cultures different from ours. How can the campers be ready for it? If you have campers from the region joining you, what do you need to take note of? Come join our workshop for a taste of a service learning and cultural savy programme. |
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| 24 | Folk Dance Games / Dancing game | Ms. Yindy Chan | Yindy is a member of Camping Association of Hong Kong, China, and a Senior Programme Worker at Caritas – Hong Kong, Camp Service. She has got the teacher certificate of national dance (Associate) from Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London. Yindy holds a Diploma in Recreation Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong | Workshop | Participants will be able to learn the following dances and have fun of playing games in this session.
1. “Samoa Sa Sa Dance 2.”Sing Song Dance” ~ found the good new friend, 3. Dragon Dance from Israel
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| 25 | Wood Handicraft | Mr. Tsung-Hsien Hou | To be advised | Taiwan | Workshop | Pick up the scrap woods and make the magic happen. Participants can use simple tools to create many kinds of insects, and even an ICF butterfly… |
| 26 | Fun games! | Mr. Ta-Chen Chiang | To be advised | Taiwan | Workshop | Come to join this session filled with joy and fun. Overseas participants will have extra fun from using Mandarin in some games… |
| 27 | State Sanitary Supervision of Children Health Improvement in Chelyabinsk Region Camps |
Ms. Veronika Makarova | Veronika was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region. Graduated from Perm State Medical Academy in 1995, got a degree in hygieology and epidemiology. Worked as a pediatric hygienist. Since 2005 she is an assistant head of children personnel development and education conditions supervion department, Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service. |
Russia | Workshop | Chelyabinsk region (South Ural) is one of the major industrial centers of Russia. Heavy industry predominates, especially mining, metallurgy and military machinery. High morbidity rate, disturbance of physical development, adverse ecology and widespread effect of destructive modes of behavior (smoking, alcohol, drugs, early sexual life) determine children health level in Chelyabinsk region. Preservation of health and health promotion are vital social and medical issue. Yearly Russian Government takes an active part in children rest organization and controls the work of camps and day-care centers. One of the main directions of control is sanitation and epidemiological inspection of camp fuctioning, that includes laboratory tests of water, food, soil and abidance of sanitation-and-epidemiological rules. |
| 28 | Fun Games and Crafts for a Camp | Mr. Shin Takahashi | To be advised | Japan | Workshop | To be advised |
| 29 | New Step of development | Mrs. Tulshig Tuvshin | Mrs. T. Tulshig is Director General of the ”International Children’s Centre Nairamdal” (ICCN). She has had 29 years work experience working for ICCN starting as camp counselor, Deputy Director-General and subsequently Director-General. She is a regional representative and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Camping Fellowship since 2007 and currently the President of the Mongolian Camping Association. Mrs. T. Tulshig participates in development of camp programs, management of human resources, development of state policy for children, camp master plan, developed Camp Standards and various joint research activities. |
Mongolia | Country Presentation | The International Children’s Centre”Nairamdal” has operated since 1978 and welcomes more than 20 000 children throughout year providing a number of camp programs to promote children’s participation, foster friendship between children from different countries ,has exchange program with more than 10 countries.
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