HEALTH-PRESERVING TECHNOLOGIES: PRINCIPLES, FORMS AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

Objective: generalization of scientific approaches due to the usage of health-preserving technologies; revealing of principles, forms and methods of implementation.

Methodology: to achieve the objective and solve the tasks of the research such theoretical methods have been used: comparative analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature in order to prove the practicability of usage of «health-preserving technologies»; generalization of scientific and theoretical sources to revealthe principles, methods and forms of implementation of healthpreserving technologies.

Scientific novelty: the article clarifies the scientists’ views on the basic principles, forms and methods that ensure the unity and systematic implementation of health-preserving technologies.

Conclusions. Despite the large number of classifications of health-preserving technologies and the diversity of their interpretations, we can confirm that they are a set of principles, methods and techniques of pedagogical work, which, complementing the traditional technologies of teaching and education, have signs of health preservation. The principles that ensure the implementation of health-preserving technologies include the principle of meeting human needs for health, consciousness and activity; scientificity and availability of knowledge about health preservation; taking into account the individual characteristics of the child and consideration of the current body state; complexity of health-improving and health-preserving means and measures; systemacity and thoroughness; obligatory constancy, continuity and practical purposefulness, cultural conformity.

To achieve the aim of health-preserving educational technologies, the following groups of means and forms of physical education are used: motor orientation (physical exercises, physical activity breaks, dynamic intervals, therapeutic gymnastics, motional games, etc.); healthful natural forces (sun and air baths, hydrotherapeutic procedures, phytotherapy, inhalation, vitamin therapy, etc.); hygienic(adherence of sanitary and hygiene norms; personal and general hygiene, observance of the day regimen and the regime of physical activity, diet and sleep, etc.).

In order to implement health-preserving educational technologies we can use specific (inherent only in the processes of health-preserving pedagogics) and generally pedagogical (used in all cases of education and upbringing) methods and techniques: preventive and protective (personal hygiene and hygiene training);compensatory-neutralizing (physical activity breaks, healthful, finger, breathing, corrective gymnastics, massage, psychogymnastics, etc.); stimulating (elements of cold training, physical exertion, methods of psychotherapy and phytotherapy); informational and educational (visual materials).