V.V. Yadreev¹
A.V. Filippov¹
A.V. Burnashev¹
A.G. Migalkin^1
1Institute of Physical Culture and Sport of Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk

Keywords: sports school, international sports movement, Olympic movement, sports, physical education, fair play tenets

Background. Nowadays the national educational community gives a growing priority to the advanced social education programs in the context of the increasingly global and popular sport movements with their sporting spirit, priorities and fair play tenets [1, 2].

Objective of the study was to develop an advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program to promote the international sport movement, healthy lifestyles, health competences and skills and help accumulate practical experience.

Study findings and discussion. The advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program sets an education and personality development framework for trainees of Children and Youth Sport Schools. The program is designed to study international sport movements, cultivate healthy lifestyles, build up health competences and skills and help accumulate practical experience. The 4-year-long advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program gives a special priority to the following educational aspects:

(1) Health building and protection aspect including:

– Determination and commitment for sports viewed as the key component of individual’s physical culture, healthy lifestyle and field of high aesthetics, ethics, culture, humanistic values, sporting attitudes, environmental awareness, fair competitions to test individual physical and mental capacities etc.;

– Conscientious need for active sports for healthy lifestyle and multidimensional personality progress in physical, spiritual, intellectual, ethical and aesthetical domains;

– Awareness of the humanistic and socio-cultural benefits of active sports, their role in healthy lifestyle and personality progress toolkits; their resources for ethical and aesthetical progress, communication, individual ecological culture, intellectual, creative and other qualities and capacities; and the ways they offer for the self-fulfillment agenda;

(2) Humanistic dimension of the modern sports with their sporting agendas, including:

– Knowledge of international sport movements, their history, missions, objectives, key Olympic ideals, values and priorities;

– Interest in the international sport processes including the Olympic movement;

– Willingness to contribute to the international sport games and competitions and demonstrate highly sporting, noble attitudes as implied by the fair play tenets;

– Strive to evolve into an all-round harmoniously developed athlete as close as possible to the ideal model set by Pierre de Coubertin i.e. ‘harmony of body and spirit’; and

– Commitment for the international sport movement and mission, with the efforts to promote its ideas and active contribution to its progress.

(3) Anti-doping provisions designed to develop and excel the relevant knowledgebase, including:

– Anti-doping values and priorities, zero tolerance to doping in every discipline and health group of athletes;

– Anti-doping competences of coaches, instructors and sport managers; and

– Awareness of the sport-discipline-specific anti-doping provisions, clean training methods and tools for high competitive accomplishments.

(4) Multicultural background implies tolerance to a variety of cultural/ ethnic traditions represented in sports including:

– Efficient adaptation of junior athletes to multicultural values and environments, and tolerance to diverse cultures and backgrounds;

– Openness to peaceful dialogues of cultures;

– Key humanistic concepts and ideas forming a basis for personality progress and social relationship.

The advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program offers special trainings focused on the international sport movement, its mission and constituents. The program offers highly emotional events including Health Day, Sport Olympic Festival, trekking events, master classes of sport celebrities, visits to sport events, competitions, sport clubs etc. 

Conclusion. The advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program with its focused educational tools to promote the international sport movement, healthy lifestyles, Olympic values and fair play tenets, prevent addictions, cultivate immunity to doping and give a modern multicultural background – was found beneficial as verified by the growing engagement of the junior athletes into the international sport movement, their growing responsibility in the educational process, progress in trainings, good discipline and growing family support for the school sports.

References

1. Yadreev V.V., Filippov A.V., Kudrin E.P., et al. Mezhdunarodnye sportivnye igry «Deti Azii»: Protsess stanovleniya ['Children of Asia' International sports games: growth process]. Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury, 2017, no. 7, P 55.
2. Iadreev V., Cherkashin I., Vujkov S., Drid P. Differences in anthropometric, motoric and cognitive abilities between athletically trained and untrained girls. Biomedical Human Kinetics, 2015, no.7, pp.73-77.

Corresponding author: yadruk@mail.ru

Abstract

Objective of the study was to develop an advanced social education program “Olympic Ideals” designed to promote the international sport movement, healthy lifestyles, health competences and skills and help accumulate practical experience. The 4-year-long advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program gives a special priority to the following educational aspects: health building, humanistic dimension, anti-doping provisions and multicultural background; and builds up special competences in the international sport movement, its role and constituents. The program offers highly emotional events including Health Day, Sport Olympic Festival, trekking events, master classes of sport celebrities, visits to sport events, competitions, sport clubs etc. 

The advanced social education “Olympic Ideals” program with its focused educational tools to promote the international sport movement, healthy lifestyles, Olympic values and fair play tenets, prevent addictions, cultivate immunity to doping and give a modern multicultural background – was found beneficial as verified by the growing engagement of the junior athletes into the international sport movement, their growing responsibility in the educational process, progress in trainings, good discipline and growing family support for school sports.