I studied on the contribution of Coubertin who had rendered great survices in education, physical culture, and sports of France. I tried to reinvestigate his educational philosophy and his thought of physical training through his career and words. Mon...
I studied on the contribution of Coubertin who had rendered great survices in education, physical culture, and sports of France. I tried to reinvestigate his educational philosophy and his thought of physical training through his career and words. Mondern Olympic Games which are festival of mankind have been restored by Coubertin.
The result of the study is as follows:
(1) Coubertin made his critical comparision of intellectualism and authoritarianism of France and indepeneent education of Britain through his studying abroad(Britain, America etc.), and carried out the educational reform adopting physical training in their curriculum of French education.
(2) Educational philosophy of Coubertin is equalitarianism and education for the whole man, through which they can improve personal ability, think with freedom, demonstrate their individuality, extend mutual understanding with reliance and respect.
(3) Coubertin did not look upon sports as being within physical education for a part of school education, but being one of the greatest responsibilities among the entire education.
(4) His thought of physical training was an educational philosophy for the whole man based on the improvement of mental, physical monism, which promoted the growth of individuality synthetically and made a man have a mental, moral, physical capacity.
(5) His work made a turning point in the sports world; with Olympic Games they have transferred sports from a regional event to the international sports events, and sports is having been popularized and extended widely.
Olympic Games have provided just one place not only for playing the various games, but for gathering the worldwide culture, for understanding each other to everyone of global village.