A SURVEY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the educational significance of the modern Olympic Games for me institution of Olympic Education in Japan.(1) Olympic Education includes peace education, global education and aesthetic education. People will recognize that mutual understanding through sports contributes to build peaceful societies, and Olympic Education teach them to try to do their best overcoming their obstacles in their life.(2) The Olympic Education texts in the foreign countries consists of many kinds offactors, that is, history and principle of the Olympic Games, athletes, sport events, doping, and gender. They add activities and practices. And they utilize the audio-visual materials. It is important that media literacy education would be added in Olympic Education.(3) The students participated in the "One School One Country Program" in Nagano city in 1998 became more cross-cultural aware than the other students. This "One School One Country Program" was succeeded to the students in Salt-Lake-City. Also it is succeeded to the Comprehensive Learning in some schools in Nagano City.(4) It is important to teach people through the Olympic Games, not only the knowledge of the facts, but also the wisdom that would develop their life, like gender materials. And it is also important to make people think about the goods and the evils of the Olympic Games in Olympic education.