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Los pilares de la pedagogía deportiva de Coubertin : el influjo del mundo anglosajón / Pedro Pérez Aragón

Aragón Peréz, Pedro

Edited by Universidad Camilo José Cela. Madrid - 2016

Three crucial elements shaped Coubertin’s renewed pedagogy: medieval cavalry, the Olympic Greek world and the Anglo-Saxon world. These three pillars underpin both Coubertin’s thought and sport pedagogy. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the influence of the Anglo-Saxon world on his work. Moreover, it focuses on Coubertin’s role as an educator and as a leader and organizer until 1894. The methodology is historical and it is based on primary and secondary sources. The influence of the Anglo-Saxon world was predominant and prevailed on Coubertin’s work. His reading of “Tom Brown’s School Days” at the age of twelve and of “Notes sur l’Angleterre” at the age of seventeen; his trips to England, especially the first one in 1883, at the age of twenty, when he visited Rugby (whose headmaster had been Thomas Arnold) and other schools; and his trip to USA and Canada in 1889, at the age of twenty six, are the foundations on which Coubertin’s thought, work and pedagogical project are built and the ones which make sport the essential element of his reform policy.

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