Olympic education: the educational role of the centers of documentation and memory
Por Silvana Vilodre Goellner (Autor).
Parte de Olympism and Olympic Education . páginas 183 - 189
Resumo
Approaching the educational potential of the centers of documentation and memory as an opportunity to analyze and understand Olympic sports seems to be redundant, since, as a wide-ranging and clearly visible cultural phenomenon, it has provoked diferent rememorizations in diferent times and cultures. These rememorizations are based on diferent sources: documents, ofcial records of competitions and institutions, photographs, score sheets, journals, journalistic reports, testimonies of people who have watched and lived diferent kinds of Olympic sports. (Goellner, 2003; Miranda, 2007; Goellner & Macedo, 2021) Therefore, using memory and history as a resource to analyze Olympic sports presupposes a broadening of the understanding that historical records are characterized as a collection of curiosities on a given subject, or are limited to the recording of memory data, whether individual or collective, belonging to sports clubs, International Sports Federations, National Olympic Committees or nations. (Puig, 2003; Macedo & Goellner, 2019) This statement refers to the frst challenge to be faced by those who intend to work with the perspective of Olympic education from the memory of what has already happened, which we can only get to know through records and sources.
