The 2012 Olympics are set to transform London and propose a unique opportunity for some exciting and inspiring education. The UJIA Department of Informal Education has created this resource which picks up on some key topics inspired by the Olympics 2012 to help you to tap into the Olympics and make the most of it.
These packages allow you to maximise the educational opportunities that the Olympics can offer, and will help you to integrate the education to benefit the needs of your organisation.
The following packages have been created with you in mind.
Each package has core content, Jewish responses on the topics and programming ideas and suggestions. They have been created so that you can pick and choose the most important content, allowing spaces for your own creativity in case you may wish to apply your own method ideas.
Packages include:
• A Healthy mind and a healthy body
• Gender in Sport
• Healthy Living and Sport
• Jewish Ideas on Strength
• Munich
• The Olympic Games and Protest Movements.
Package edited and compiled by Deborah Brown
Written by Shelley Marsh
‘Maintaining a healthy and sound body is among the ways of God.
One cannot understand or have any knowledge of the Creator if one is ill.’
Moses Maimonides
Sport is an area in which gender stereotypes are sometimes heightened, but it also offers an opportunity for people to move past these stereotypes. This package will take a look at everyday stereotypes of gender in sport, ideas surrounding gender in the bible and in popular culture, it will also provide some methods to allow your group to explore what gender means for them.
This session aims to educate about context of the Munich Olympics, about the terrorist attack in Munich and its’ aftermath. Including Jewish texts used to think about issues around retaliation and exploring the measures Israel took and our feelings towards the attacks.
One of the great historical themes of the Olympics revolves around the heroic tales of individuals triumphing over oppressive and racist governments through sporting achievement.
This package presents a range of examples in which sporting heroes take part in protest and presents opportunities to examine the nature of these protests.
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