Formation of students’ health culture as a pedagogical problem

The article deals with the problem regarding the health of modern youth as a necessary condition for all-round development, a full-fledged human life, one of the highest values of society. The purpose of the study is to consider the process aimed at forming students' health culture as a holistic, multilevel, integrative, interdisciplinary direction of the pedagogical activity, to determine its conceptual, methodological and methodological aspects. The research methods are as follows: analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization and systematization of the data of educational, methodological and scientific literature, conceptual positions of the problem under study, definition of the basic concepts of the research, modelling of the holistic process aimed at forming students' health culture. The results of the study: the state of the problem concerning health from the viewpoint of the pedagogical sphere has been considered; the concept “culture of students' health” has been defined; the theoretical and methodological principles of the process aimed at forming students' health culture have been specified; a pedagogical model facilitating the formation of students' health culture consisting of four interconnected structural blocks has been elaborated. The target unit defines the purpose and the tasks of the process aimed at forming students' health culture; the theoretical and methodological unit reveals methodological approaches (holistic, synergetic, competence-based, activity-centred) and specific principles (interdisciplinarity, unity of theory and practice, individualization, natural correspondence); the content block envisages mastering the totality of disciplines (Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, Biochemistry, Ecology, Physical Education, Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, etc.) and the knowledge of the components constituting a healthy lifestyle (motor regime, nutrition, endoecology, a psychoemotional activity, toughening up, rational organization of the vital activity, absence of harmful habits, self-education and self-education on health-related issues, etc.); the procedural block specifies the stages of the development of recreational activities as an external expression of the process aimed at forming students' health culture.