SELF-REGULATION AS AN ADAPTIVE RESOURCE FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN IN MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Relevance. Modern physical education in general secondary education institutions is increasingly focused on the development of motor skills and the formation of internal personal resources that ensure students’ adaptation to academic and social challenges. In this context, self-regulation becomes especially significant as an integrative ability for conscious management of psychophysical states, behavior, and activity. Physical education creates pedagogically guided conditions for the integration of physiological and psychological mechanisms of self-regulation, which determines its adaptive potential.

Problem Statement. Despite the recognized importance of self-regulation, in school physical education practice it is mostly formed indirectly and unsystematically. The dominance of a norm-oriented approach reduces the potential of physical education as a means of developing students’ adaptive and self-regulatory skills.

Purpose of the Article. Theoretical justification of self-regulation as an adaptive resource for schoolchildren in modern physical education and identification of pedagogical mechanisms for its formation.

Research Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is a systemic and interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of self-regulation in the educational process. Methods of theoretical analysis, synthesis, comparison, and generalization of scientific sources in pedagogy, psychology, and physical education theory were applied, which allowed for the identification of structural components of self-regulation and pedagogical conditions for its development.

Scientific Novelty. The scientific novelty lies in the justification of self-regulation as an adaptive resource for schoolchildren in the system of modern physical education and in clarifying its pedagogical significance under educational load conditions.

Conclusions. Self-regulation is considered a key resource for schoolchildren’s adaptation to modern educational and social challenges, while physical education is seen as an effective environment for its purposeful development.