ABSTRACT
The Olympic Games offers the world a moment to see itself – both as it is and how it could be. This mixture of dreams to aspire to and interrogate is the basis of the educational value of the Games. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Movement, viewed the Games as a cultural and an educational event – a legacy that is reflected in an Olympic Organising Committee’s obligations under the terms of the Olympic Charter to further Olympic education during the host city’s Olympiad. All host nations are committed to pro-viding an education programme in schools, but the way in which this programme is created is left up to host organising committees (for 2012, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games – LOCOG) who are relatively free to design the programme as they wish.
