Formation of future coaches' readiness to educate moral and volitional qualities in young athletes

Abstract

The article reveals the problematic issues of modernization of the process of future coaches’ training in higher education institutions to form a personality capable of performing the role of a mentor in the education of moral and volitional qualities in pupils of children and youth sports schools. It has been proved that an important condition for the formation of a fully developed personality is its proper physical training, adherence to a healthy lifestyle, combining physical activity with human values and moral and volitional qualities. It has been established that the formation of students' moral and volitional qualities is based on the concept of “will” - the ability of a person to act actively and consciously in achieving the goal, overcoming internal and external difficulties. The will is considered as a mental human activity which is manifested in conscious and purposeful actions, struggle of motives, their choice, which precedes volitional action. Volitional actions have their own specific features: awareness, purposefulness, overcoming obstacles, initiating actions, the presence of volitional efforts, etc. For a future coach, these features are factors of successful overcoming difficulties in achieving the goal, self-improvement, focus on achieving the intended results by students. The purpose of the article is to determine the level of future coaches' readiness to develop moral and volitional qualities in pupils of children and youth sports schools. The component of forming the readiness of future coaches for the development of moral and volitional qualities in pupils of children and youth sports schools are pedagogical conditions: 1) transformation of the content of training of future specialists in higher education institutions; 2) ensuring positive motivation for the professional activity of future coaches; 3) use of active teaching methods in the process of professional training. The dynamics of future coaches' readiness for the development of moral and volitional qualities in pupils of children and youth sports schools showed that before the beginning of the formative experiment 39.7% of students had a low level of readiness, 37.8% - sufficient and 22.5% - high. At the end of the formative experiment, 31.8% of the experimental group remained at a low level, 41.9% at a sufficient level, and 26.4% at a high level. There were some differences in the number of respondents with low, sufficient and high levels, ranging from 16.0% to 28.5%. The development of moral and volitional qualities is an integral part of not only the educational process, but also the participation of the applicant in sports and recreational activities.