Paralympic Sport as a Vehicle for Teaching Tolerance Toyoung People

This article is concerned with teaching tolerance to youth through Paralympic sport. The Paralympic Movement offers a range of tools to effectively achieve this goal. These include the organisation of Paralympic School Days and meetings with Paralympic athletes, encouragement of relevant fan practices and involvement of young people in volunteer work. The growing appeal of Paralympic sport helps to promoteinclusive activities both within school PE curricula and outside schools. Sitting volleyball is one kind of inclusive PE activity, while “volleyball 100x100” provides an example of extracurricular inclusive opportunities. Integrated sports activities involving both young able-bodied people and those with an impairmenthave an important educational effect on able-bodied youth.