Hasan Mohammed Al-khaldi
The Hashemite University, Jordan
Title: Enhancing the Olympic Values in the Physical Education Faculties in the Jordanian Universities from the Point of View of the Teaching Staff Members
Biography
Biography: Hasan Mohammed Al-khaldi
Abstract
De Coubertin expressed the importance of values like honor, a better world, competing is more important than winning, sound mind in healthy body, sportsmanship and brotherhood.
The IOC has translated those values into the defination of Olympism as a found in the Olympic Charter.
This study aimed to investigate the level of enhancing the Olympic Values of the teaching staff members in the Physical Education Faculties in the Jordanian Universities. The sample consisted of (94) members from (4) Jordanian Universities.
A questionnaire was developed in order to achieve the purpose of this study which consisted of (20) items for enhancing the Olympic Values. The indications of questionnaire's validity and reliability were confirmed. The results indicated that the level of enhancing the Olympic Values of the teaching staff members in the Jordanian Universities was high, and there were no differences with statistically significance in the level of enhancing the Olympic Values of the study sample individuals according to the : gender, the academic rank or the universities.
Olympic Values such as Joy of Effort, Fair Play, Respect for Others, Pursuit of Excellence and Balance of Body, and Mind and Character come from the fundamental principles of the Olympic movement , Researchers indicted that The Olympic values that are directly related to the life of the children, students and athlete, it can help the individual's character building, through better search itself, both in sports activities, such as in everyday actions. The study provides a first-of-its-kind to assess the status of Olympic Values and to prevent student from psychological problems such as violence, stress and burnout in the Jordanian Universities and middle east