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Sport Development and Olympic Studies
In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre of the German Sport University organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. This book resulted from the presentations and discussions they engendered around identifying new international collaborative research fields and deepening research on the Olympics, the Olympic Movement and sport development. The effective application of the hermeneutical method unifies the chapters. The interpretive strengths of this method sharpen the analytical perspective of the chapters, with the strict requirements for the use of primary sources meaning that the contributors have conducted extensive archival research. Assuring thematic coherence, the studies a...
Demonstration Sports
For many years, in addition to events on the official sports programme, an Olympic Games Organising Committee (OCOG) had the choice to include demonstration sports and events. This reference document is designed to trace the evolution of the rules surrounding these demonstration sports and events, present those that were included and highlight some of the more unique choices that were made by the OCOGs.
Centre for Olympic Studies
This site provides information on the Centre's aims, activities, publications, research, teaching, resources and links to other olympic sites.
Olympic Education
A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people develop essential life skills. Olympic Education: An international review is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the diffusion and implementation of Olympic education programmes around the world. The book includes 28 chapters with 21 national case studies of countries on every major continent, including Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, the UK, the US and Zambia. Each chapter examines the cultural, pedagogical, political and societal challenges of teaching Olympic education, as well as the natio...
The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers.
The Olympics: The Basics
The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including: peace development and diplomacy management and economics corruption, terror and activism the rise of human enhancement ethics and environmentalism. This book explores the controversy and the legacy of the Olympics, drawing attention to the deeper values of Olympism, as the Olympic movement’s most valuable intellectual property. This engaging, lively, and often challenging book, is essential reading for newcomers to Olympic studies and offers new insights for Olympic scholars.
Diagoras
The aim of "Diagoras: international academic journal on Olympic studies" is to foster a critical understanding of Olympism, the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games. The focus of the journal is Olympic studies with an emphasis on the educative, pedagogical, historical, socio-cultural, communicative and sport and exercise science aspects of Olympic studies. "Diagoras" seeks to become the prestigious multi-disciplinary scholarly journal on Olympic matters by extending knowledge and understanding of related areas. Published materials will be focused on original research, integrative and analytical reviews and philosophical discussions on Olympic matters. "Diagoras" is an online journal published through a conjoint arrangement between the New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Canterbury; the Olympic Studies Centre, German Sport University and the Olympic Studies Centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Initially the journal has one issue a year and has two major sections. The first section is for established Olympic scholars and the second section for emerging scholars and post graduate students.
Olympic Perspectives
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