Olympic education at the Rio 2016 Games: A georeferenced analysis

Authors

  • Flavio Valdir Kirst Faculdades Doctum de Serra (DOCTUM), Brazil
  • Otavio Guimaraes Tavares da Silva Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2019.14.Proc3.13

Keywords:

Olympism, Georeferencing, Olympic Games, Rio 2016

Abstract

Olympic Education can be defined as a set of education proposals through sport that has as reference the Olympic Movement, its values, symbols, history, heroes and traditions (TAVARES, 1998). Programs of Olympic Education of the Olympic Party since 1994 (NAUL et al., 2017). However, the scope of the programs is lagging behind (GRAVER et al., 2010; NIKOLAUS, 2013), a concern regarding concern with the International Olympic Committee (2014). The objective of this work was, based on techniques of georeferencing, consultation and reach of the Transformar Program, an Olympic education program of the organizing committee of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Starting from a register of 24,665 teachers, the study mapped 12,527 schools where they worked the teachers reached by Transforma. The results were higher than the previous score in schools with a degree of development, concentrated in the region geographically more developed of the country, demonstrating a positive relation between the quality of teaching and the involvement with activities that enrich an educated education offered.

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Published

2019-07-12

How to Cite

Kirst, F. V., & Tavares da Silva, O. G. (2019). Olympic education at the Rio 2016 Games: A georeferenced analysis. Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, 14(3proc), S412-S422. https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2019.14.Proc3.13