Olympic values in education 12th JOINT INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR PRESIDENTS OR DIRECTORS OF NATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMIES AND OFFICIALS OF NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES Published by the International Olympic Academy and the International Olympic Committee 2015 International Olympic Academy 52, Dimitrios Vikelas Avenue 152 33 Halandri – Athens GREECE Tel.: +30 210 6878809-13, +30 210 6878888 Fax: +30 210 6878840 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ioa.org.gr Editorial coordination: Roula Vathi Photographs: IOA Photographic Archives Production: SAITI Publications S.A. ISBN: 978-960-9454-30-8 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY Olympic values in education 12th JOINT INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR PRESIDENTS OR DIRECTORS OF NATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMIES AND OFFICIALS OF NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES 11–18 MAY 2014 Editor KONSTANTINOS GEORGIADIS Professor, University of Peloponnese Honorary Dean of the IOA ANCIENT OLYMPIA EPHORIA OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY (2014) President Isidoros KOUVELOS (HOC Member) Vice-President Michael FISSETZIDIS (HOC Member) Members Lambis V. NIKOLAOU (IOC Member – ex officio Member) Spyros CAPRALOS (HOC President – ex officio Member) Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS (HOC General Secretary – ex officio Member) Evangelos SOUFLERIS (HOC Member) Efthimios KOTZAS (Mayor of Ancient Olympia) Christina KOULOURI Dora PALLI Honorary President Jacques ROGGE (IOC Honorary President) Honorary Members T.A. Ganda SITHOLE (Director, International Cooperation and Development Dpt., IOC) Pere MIRÓ (Director, Olympic Solidarity, IOC) Honorary Dean Konstantinos GEORGIADIS Director Dionyssis GANGAS HELLENIC OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (2014) President Spyros CAPRALOS 1st Vice-President Pavlos KANELLAKIS 2nd Vice-President Athanassios VASSILIADIS Secretary General Emmanuel KATSIADAKIS Treasurer Antonios NIKOLOPOULOS Deputy Treasurer Michael FISSETZIDIS Deputy Secretary General Dimitrios CHATZIMICHALIS IOC Member Lambis V. NIKOLAOU Members Stylianos AGGELOUDIS Xenophon ATHANASIOU Georgios ALIKAKOS Georgios VASSILAKOPOULOS Ioannis VASSILIADIS Georgios GEROLYMPOS Dimitrios DIATHESSOPOULOS Spyridon ZANNIAS Dionyssios ILIADIS Ioannis KARRAS Vassilios KATSORAS Fotis KAÏMENAKIS Athanassios KANELLOPOULOS Emmanuel KOLYMBADIS Isidoros KOUVELOS Georgios LENOS Achilleas MAVROMATIS Fani PALLI-PETRALIA Sofoklis PILAVIOS Ioannis SGOUROS Evangelos SOUFLERIS Ioannis STAMATOPOULOS Petros SYNADINOS Athanassios TERZIS Konstantinos TSAOUSOGLOU Sofia BEKATOROU Vassilios POLYMEROS IOC COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND OLYMPIC EDUCATION (2014) Chairman Lambis V. NIKOLAOU (GRE) Members Vittorio ADORNI (ITA) Beatrice ALLEN (GAM) Franco ASCANI (ITA) Valeriy BORZOV (UKR) Andres BOTERO PHILISBOURNE (COL) Helen BROWNLEE (AUS) Spyros CAPRALOS (GRE) Ung CHANG (KOR) Philip CRAVEN (GBR) Iván DIBÓS (PER) Conrado DURÁNTEZ (ESP) Jean DURRY (FRA) Claude Louis GALLIEN (FRA) Aïcha GARAD ALI (DJI) Albertine GONÇALVEZ (SEN) Timothy Tsun Ting FOK (CHN) Konstantinos GEORGIADIS (GRE) Nat INDRAPANA (THA) Ryong-Gil KANG (KOR) Marion KEIM (RSA) Ji Young KIM (KOR) Isidoros KOUVELOS (GRE) H.E. the Princess Nora of LIECHTENSTEIN (LIE) Karl LENNARTZ (GER) Vladimir LISIN (RUS) Alain LUNZENFICHTER (FRA) Barry MAISTER (NZL) Admire MASENDA (ZIM) Alicia MASONI de MOREA (ARG) Samih MOUDALLAL (SYR) Norbert MÜLLER (GER) Tubby REDDY (RSA) Mounir SABET (EGY) Melitón SÁNCHEZ RIVAS (PAN) Giacomo SANTINI (ITA) Klaus SCHORMANN (GER) Margaret TALBOT (GBR) Ching-Kuo WU (TPE) Honorary Member Zhenliang HE (CHN) Director in charge Lindsay GLASSCO (CAN) CONTENTS Foreword by the Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy Prof. Konstantinos GEORGIADIS .......................................................................... 17 OPENING CEREMONY Ancient Olympia, 12th May 2014 Opening Address of the Session Proceedings by the President of the International Olympic Academy Isidoros KOUVELOS ........................................................................................... 21 PROCEEDINGS Lectures Sport, dignity and human rights Assoc. Prof. Dr Emanuele ISIDORI (ITA) ............................................................... 31 The Olympic values in the educational reform proposed by Pierre de Coubertin (1889–1937): An education for peace, freedom and democracy Dr Eugenia MARTÍNEZ-GORROÑO (ESP) ............................................................... 45 Ekecheiria as “educational idea” to develop a culture of peace Alexandre Miguel MESTRE (POR) ....................................................................... 61 Kalokagathia: Understanding Olympic ethics in terms of beautiful goodness Prof. Dr Heather REID (USA) ............................................................................. 76 11 12th JOINT INT. SESSION FOR PRESIDENTS OR DIRECTORS OF NOAs AND OFFICIALS OF NOCs Teaching Olympic values: The idea of respect Asst. Prof. Dr Sarah Jane TEETZEL (CAN) ......................................................... 87 Diversity as a modern Olympic value in education Dr Vassiliki TZACHRISTA (GRE) ......................................................................... 100 Olympic values: The Olympic Values Education Program (OVEP), an African context of hunhu/ubuntu Eugenia CHIDHAKWA (ZIM) ............................................................................... 110 Teaching Olympic and Paralympic values Prof. Dr Heike TIEMANN (GER) ......................................................................... 120 Social transformation through sport and Olympic values. Medellín – Colombia: a social transformation case study Prof. Clemencia ANAYA MAYA (COL) .................................................................126 Short presentations by the participants The Hellenic Olympic Academy (2013–2014) Isidoros KOUVELOS (GRE) ................................................................................ 150 Activities of the AANOA 2013–2014 Dr Ridha LAYOUNI (TUN) ................................................................................. 154 2014 Argentine Olympic Academy Report Prof. Silvia DALOTTO DE MARCÓ and Mario MOCCIA, BA (ARG) .......................... 157 Australian Olympic Education – “The Olympic Values in Education” Gillian BREWSTER (AUS) .................................................................................. 160 Olympic values within the Belarusian National Education System Iryna GUSLISTAVA (BLR) ...................................................................................167 Briefing on Olympic education in Chinese Taipei Hsiu-Ying MAI and Frances Yuh-Fang WANG LEE (TPE) ......................................170 Sport, culture and Olympic education: A powerful tool to achieve peace in Colombia Carlos Eduardo VILLEGAS ESTRADA (COL) ......................................................... 172 12 CONTENTS Costa Rica National Olympic Academy Laura MOREIRA LEÓN (CRC) ............................................................................ 175 Croatian Olympic Academy and promotion of Olympic values in education Sasa CERAJ (CRO) .......................................................................................... 177 Olympic values: The core in Olympic education at school and out-of-school sport settings Prof. Antonin RYCHTECKÝ (CZE) ...................................................................... 180 Olympic education in the Estonian Olympic Academy Merike KULL and Liis KAIBALD (EST) ................................................................ 185 Ethiopian National Youth Sport Academy: Brief activity report Dr Sirak Habtemariam KELELAW (ETH) ............................................................. 187 Presentation of the French National Olympic Academy Jean VINTZEL and Laurence MUNOZ (FRA) ......................................................... 193 Guatemalan Olympic Committee: Transforming lives – Educating with values Gerardo Rene AGUIRRE OESTMANN (GUA) ........................................................ 199 National Olympic and Paralympic Academy of the Islamic Republic of Iran – Annual Report for 2013 Amir Reza BALZADEH (IRI) ............................................................................... 203 Activities of the NOA of Japan for 2013: Towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Keiko ARAI (JPN) ............................................................................................ 205 Lesotho National Olympic Academy activities Letsatsi NTSIBOLANE (LES) ............................................................................... 209 Sports as education: The role of NOC and NOA in promoting and upholding Olympism and the Olympic values – The Malaysian model Dr Siew Eng TAN (MAS) .................................................................................. 211 Women’s empowerment in sports Mohamed SAEED (MDV) .................................................................................. 215 Olympic values in developing countries: The case of Mauritius Sanjaye GOBOODUN (MRI) ............................................................................... 220 13 12th JOINT INT. SESSION FOR PRESIDENTS OR DIRECTORS OF NOAs AND OFFICIALS OF NOCs National Olympic Academy of Nepal Sujan Lal SHRESTHA (NEP) .............................................................................. 223 Me.You.We Fabienne VAN LEEUWEN (NED) ......................................................................... 225 Growing Olympic leaders in New Zealand Sue EMERSON (NZL) ........................................................................................ 228 Establishing the Olympic Academy of Oman: Hindrances