Olympic Education - history, theory, practice

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.

ContentsContents ..................................................... 8Introduction ..................................... 11Deanna Binder, Roland Naul & Ludmila FialovaSECTION ONE: The History of the Olympic Education Movement .. 181 The Evolution of Olympic Education: Sources and steps of development until the 1980s............................19Roland Naul2 Olympic Values Education - From the 1980s to the Present...............38Deanna BinderSECTION TWO: The IOC Support of Olympic Studies and OlympicEducation .................................................. 593 The IOC Olympic Studies Centre and the Olympic Studies Academic Community.................................. 60Nuria Puig4 The Olympic Museum and Olympic Education: Same Theory, Different Practices...................................................... 68Anne ChevalleySection THREE: Olympic Education in the Czech Republic ...... 805 The Czech National Olympic Academy: Our Program and Activities (2012-2017)....................................................... 81Zdenek Skoda6 Teaching Olympic Education and Education through Sport in the Czech Republic ........................... 91Antonin RychteckySection FOUR: Olympic Education Before and After Olympic Games............. 1077 Olympic Education in Japan. Before and After the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964 and 2020 ......................... 108Taro Obayashi8 Olympic Education and Host City of the Olympic Games: The example of Paris 2024.................................... 121Eric MonninSection FIVE: Olympic Ideals as means for Transformation of Culture and Society ..................................... 1329 Olympic Values for Social Change .......................... 133Clemencia Anaya Maya10 Olympic Values Education as the Foundation for Community Sport .... 145Mayamba SitaliList of authors ...................................................... 162