The Olympic Games as a promoter of Olympic education

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Binder
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Olympic Education ◽  
The Olympic Games

scholarly journals Olympism and the Olympic education: history, modernity, future

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-27
Author(s):  
Maria Bulatova ◽  
Vladimir Platonov
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Education History ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Olympic Education ◽  
Olympic Sport ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
Negative Phenomena ◽  
The Olympic Games

Objective. Study of the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement as an aggregate of phenomena and processes of historical, socio-economic, political, educational, and purely sports character in their organic relationship, with due account for achievements and issues, positive and negative aspects, risks and development prospects. Results. Most of the modern initiatives and educational resources implemented in the modern Olympic education system are focused only on obtaining general ideas about the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, active promoting the ideals and values of the Olympic philosophy, which has been peculiar for the policy of the IOC and IOA in this area for several decades. Traditionally established concept of the Olympic education, peculiar for most countries, lags behind the needs of the time, is characterized by weak sociocultural content, limited criticism and commitment to emotional rhetoric, especially in the part that relates to the universalism of the Olympic values, claims to the global educational potential of the Olympic education. However, the Olympic movement and the Olympic Games do not need artificial idealization. Their value is in the greatest history, bright modernity, diversity and popularity, difficulties and contradictions, numerous interrelations with politics and economics, culture and art, education and upbringing. Versatile and objective consideration and study of the Olympic movement and, above all, the Olympic Games various aspects, with account for all strengths and weaknesses, achievements and issues, weak points and drawbacks can in no way adversely affect the popularity and significance of this phenomenon, including as an object of the Olympic education. On the contrary, the idealization of the Olympic sport and the Olympic Games, outstanding athletes and their role in the process of educational and upbringing, ignoring issues, difficulties, contradictions, negative phenomena and risk factors are a direct way to the devaluation of the Olympic education, to skepticism regarding its potentials and significance.

Spread of Knowledge on Olympism in School Applying the Integrated Programme of Olympic Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (80) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiva Majauskienė ◽  
Saulius Šukys ◽  
Aušra Lisinskienė
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Olympic Education ◽  
Integrated Information ◽  
The Olympic Games

Research background and hypothesis. The present study deals with the Integrated Programme of Olympic Education in school. We hypothesized that pupils in schools where this program was executed would have more knowledge on Olympism.Research aim was to determine the possibilities of spreading the knowledge on Olympism in schools applying the programme of the Olympic education. Research methods. The sample consisted of the representative group of 2335 adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years. The study employed an Olympic Questionnaire (Olympic Questionnaire – Telama et al., 2002) in order to establish in what way the school provided Olympism-related information and what knowledge related to Olympism and Olympic Games the pupils possessed.Research results. It was established that the contents of the Olympic education was various: the pupils were acquainted with various historic facts about the Olympic Games, their participants, symbolism, traditions, Fair play; pupils performed practical tasks and various festivals were organized at schools. The survey showed that the knowledge of pupils from the schools executing the programme of the Olympic education about the fi rst Modern and the last Olympic Games was better. More pupils from these schools knew the Paralympics Games.Discussion and conclusions. The survey showed that teachers from schools where the integrated programme of the Olympic education was executed integrated information about Olympism into their teaching subjects. Knowledge about the Olympic Games and their participants among pupils in these schools were much better as well.Keywords: Olympism, Integrated Olympic Education, Olympism-related knowledge.

scholarly journals Olympic Education as an Intergenerational Relation of the Third Degree

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Takayuki Hata ◽  
Masami Sekine
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Competitive Sport ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
Intergenerational Relation ◽  
Sport Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Sport ◽  
Olympic Education ◽  
The Olympic Games

Olympic Education as an Intergenerational Relation of the Third DegreeThe 30th anniversary meeting of the Japanese Society for the Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education was held in September 2008. It has been over 30 years since this society was established. Nevertheless the tendency and recent trend in sport philosophy in Japan have not been conveyed abroad. The good reason behind this may be the language barrier between English and Japanese. This makes it difficult to spread the activities on sport philosophy in Japan throughout the world. The question arises as to whether sport philosophy in Japan has the same trend and tendency as sport philosophy in Western countries. We would like to report on sport philosophy in Japan, especially on its characteristics and future perspectives, in order to contribute toward the international development in this field. Sport was introduced into Japan from Western countries in the Meiji period when a national isolation policy in the Shogunate Government of the Edo period finished. The Japanese accepted and have been developing it as a means of school physical education. This fact shows why sport philosophy in Japan has its origins not in sport as culture but in sport in physical education at school. The Japanese philosophy of sport society was not founded by philosophers. It was founded and has been administered by experts in teaching sport and physical education. They recognized several reasons why sport philosophy widened its object from school physical education to sport as the cultural and public phenomenon in the 1960s. Competitive sport was recognized with Japan taking the opportunity of staging the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964. This happened because the nation was strongly interested in the competitive sport, and in particular in the Olympic Games. The object of sport philosophy came to be taken for the social meaning of this competitive sport. Also, the change of the Japanese mind structure from common consciousness to self-consciousness, which was affected by the understanding of the human being in the Western culture, made sport a certain action of personal meanings. We would like to suggest a future perspective of the sport philosophy in Japan.

The Effects of Significant International Sports Events on Hungarian Suicide Rates

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karoly Bozsonyi ◽  
Peter Osvath ◽  
Sandor Fekete ◽  
Lajos Bálint
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Intervention Analysis ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
The Olympic Games

Abstract. Background: Several studies found a significant relationship between important sport events and suicidal behavior. Aims: We set out to investigate whether there is a significant relationship between the raw suicide rate and the most important international sports events (Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship) in such an achievement-oriented society as the Hungarian one, where these sport events receive great attention. Method: We examined suicide cases occurring over 15,706 days between January 1, 1970, and December 31, 2012 (43 years), separately for each gender. Because of the age-specific characteristics of suicide, the effects of these sport events were analyzed for the middle-aged (30–59 years old) and the elderly (over 60 years old) generations as well as for gender-specific population groups. The role of international sport events was examined with the help of time-series intervention analysis after cyclical and seasonal components were removed. Intervention analysis was based on the ARIMA model. Results: Our results showed that only the Olympic Games had a significant effect in the middle-aged population. Neither in the older male nor in any of the female age groups was a relationship between suicide and Olympic Games detected. Conclusion: The Olympic Games seem to decrease the rate of suicide among middle-aged men, slightly but significantly.

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

Metaphorik im Kommunikationsbereich der Sportfachsprachlichkeit

Fachsprache ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Wenke Mückel
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
European Football ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
The Olympic Games

Metaphorical elements are a highly productive language means in live reports about sport events on TV. They occur in different relations to what is simultaneously seen on screen and depend on the reporter as well as on the special kind of sport. But nevertheless, general structures and functions of metaphors in those medium-bound oral texts can be indicated; as one of the markers they contribute to what is often called language of sport or maybe rather communicative template of sport. Examples taken from TV reports of the European Football Championship and the Olympic Games (both took place in 2016) are used to illustrate this character of metaphorical expressions in sport reports on TV.

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