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The implementation of Olympic education programs at world levelItem type:Publication, [Olimpinio švietimo programų įgyvendinimas pasauliniu lygmeniu]journal article[2008]Georgiadis, KonstantinosSporto mokslas / Sport Science, 2008, no. 4, p. 32-39The article emphasizes the need of Olympic education as the program related to health, environment, intercultural awareness and young people’s social behaviour in school curriculum. More widely, a demand is to link the school to the local community and its institutions by emphasizing the humanistic and ethical dimensions of Olympism. Concrete programs of Olympic education that were created by separate Olympic Games Organizing Committees are being represented in this article. These programs go with their aims such as initiating a strong volunteering movement that would cover all the facets of young people social life, promoting Olympic ideal, encouraging to explore other cultures, etc. The great part of this paper represents a survey that reveals problems of implementation of Olympic education programs within the Olympic Movement and stages proposals for solving them. The results of research proved that Olympic education is accepted as necessary in most countries that implemented such programs. Olympic education programs are growing into an important activity with a strong impact on a range of permanent aspects of global education. The school should draw upon this wealth of knowledge, experience and representations that students of all ages bring from their life, their family, the environment in which they live, which should be combined with those included in the curriculum. Although Olympic education programs contribute to changes that improve school’s efficiency, many of these programs cannot be integrated into educational system. This is due to a series of problems arising during their implementation in the educational process. Finding ways of integrating the innovations offered by Olympic education programs in education will require mobilization and allowance their inclusion in school system of each country. If this is not guaranteed, then Olympic education programs will be implemented outside the framework of national educational institutions, on a limited scale and remain without proper recognition on the sidelines of the curriculum.
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