Olympic Education - history, theory, practice (eBook)

This anthology is dedicated as a commemorative book for Antonin Rychtecky on behalf of his 75th birthday in 2020. It compiles the proceedings of the 4th Willbald Gebhardt Olympic Symposium held at Charles University of Prague (Czech Republic). In five sections, ten papers of the symposium are published. Section One deals with the history of Olympic education development in Europe and North America (Binder and Naul). Section Two documents the support of the IOC Olympic Study Centre and Lausanne Olympic Museum for Olympic education (Puig, Chevalley). The Third section reflects the development of Olympic education in the Czech Republic (Skoda, Rychtecky). Section Four gives two examples of how Olympic education developed and became supported in accordance with preparation of Olympic Games in Japan (Tokyo, Obayashi) and France (Paris, Monnin). Finally, section Five includes two national studies regarding how Olympic ideals helped to change culture and society in Africa and South America (Zimbabwe and Colombia) written by Clemencia Anaya Maya and Mayamba Sitali.

Deanna Binder is former Director of the International Institute of Olympic Education, Univ. of Alberta and Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads Univ., Victoria, Canada. For many years, she was an IOC consultant for the Olympic Values Education Project (OVEP) and a visiting professor of Olympic Pedagogy at the International Olympic Academy in Greece. Deanna published several teaching materials in Olympic education during the last 30 years. Roland Naul founded the Willibald Gebhardt Research Institute (WGI) with partners from the sport sector at the city of Essen in 1992. After relocation of the WGI as an Affiliated Institute for Research and Knowledge Transfer in Sport at the Univ. in Münster (2018), he serves as a Deputy President and Vice President of Olympic Studies. He has published eight books and numerous articles on Olympic education. Ludmila Fialova works as professor in the 'Department of Psychology, Pedagogy and Didactics in Sports and Exercise' in the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports at Charles University Prague. Ludmila was editor in chief of the national leading journal 'Czech Kinanthropology'. She wrote 8 monographs, 16 book chapters (11 abroad), and about 300 articles in 4 languages (Czech, English, German, and Russian). In 2020 Prof. Fialova received the international Thulin award of FIEP.