Olympic Education - history, theory, practice Proceedings of the 4th Willibald Gebhardt Olympic Symposium

Deanna Binder is former Director of the International Institute of Olympic Education, Univ. of Alberta and Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads Univ., Victoria, Canada. For many years, she was an IOC consultant for the Olympic Values Education Project (OVEP) and a visiting professor of Olympic Pedagogy at the International Olympic Academy in Greece. Deanna published several teaching materials in Olympic education during the last 30 years.

Roland Naul founded the Willibald Gebhardt Research Institute (WGI) with partners from the sport sector at the city of Essen in 1992. After relocation of the WGI as an Affiliated Institute for Research and Knowledge Transfer in Sport at the Univ. in Münster (2018), he serves as a Deputy President and Vice President of Olympic Studies. He has published eight books and numerous articles on Olympic education.

Ludmila Fialova works as professor in the “Department of Psychology, Pedagogy and Didactics in Sports and Exercise” in the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports at Charles University Prague. Ludmila was editor in chief of the national leading journal “Czech Kinanthropology”. She wrote 8 monographs, 16 book chapters (11 abroad), and about 300 articles in 4 languages (Czech, English, German, and Russian). In 2020 Prof. Fialova received the international Thulin award of FIEP.