INFLUENCE OF THE OLYMPIC EDUCATION ON 12-13 YEAR OLD ADOLESCENTS' EXPRESSION OF MORAL VALUES IN SPORT

Abstract

The research aim - to determine 12–13 year old adolescents’ expression of moral values in sport and to measure efficiency of the Olympic education. The research sample consisted of 126 pupils. Out of the eight general education schools, participating in a diagnostic research in Lithuania, four schools were randomly selected with 12-13 year old adolescents making the research sample. Each of the four schools had one experimental (E) and one control (C) group. The experimental group had 60 sixth-formers and 66 sixth-formers comprised the control group. The research methods: scientific literature analysis, description of moral values, educational experiment, statistical analysis. The results show that 12-13 year old adolescents in the experimental group were able to better define the essence of moral values as expression of their perception of values is higher, i.e. extensive and very detailed; grew significantly more than that of the control group participants. It was identified that data analysis of the empirical research conducted within a framework of the Olympic education manifested the expression of positive changes when contributing to the development of a moral value system, internalized by 12-13 year old adolescents. Therefore, it is highly important that adolescents’ value system would be constantly developed through the search for new ideas, pursuit of effective activity results, and use of the Olympic education. KEYWORDS: Olympic education, adolescents, moral values in sport. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15181/atee.v1i0.669