Sport - integration - Europe
Subtitle: widening horizons in intercultural education
By: edited by Petra Giess-Stüber & Diethelm Blecking ; translated by Julia Thornton & Rachel Ives
Publisher: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltmannsweiler, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9783834004666
Subjects: Social aspects; Sports; Physical education and training; Multicultural education; History
Work titles: Sport - Integration - Europa
Description: "It appears to be possible to embed sport, constructively, in the multiplicity of migration processes that accompany European integration in a way which goes beyond inept slogans about sport being understood in all languages or doing Germany good. The European project initiated by the Freiburg Institute for Sport and Sports Science has taken on this task and is endeavouring, by the use of models, to consider the "troubles of the plains" (Brecht) within the contexts of universities, school sport and organised sport, and to enact the intricacies in tangible form, for project Europe, which is still a project of elites. The European Union's eastward expansion, to Germany's neighbours, Poland and the Czech Republic, was an important motivational factor for the project. Direct project partners were universities in Germany, France, Poland and the Czech Republic."--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: "This book [and others] reflect the findings of the project "Development of intercultural competence through sport in the context of the expansion of the European Union" (sponsored by the EU, 119019-CP-1-2004-1-DE-COMENIUS-C21)."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text is in English, translated from German.