Abstract
The analysis of the health index dynamics of children, teenagers and young people of Russia during the last two decades testifies that there is a lasting tendency of decline of physical, mental and moral health of those under teaching. The social negative phenomena like tobacco-smoking, beer drinking and risky sexual behavior have become widely spread. The absence of a continual system of pedagogical education focused on health value and healthy lifestyle is one of the major reasons of low efficiency of the work carried out by educational institutions. The article substantiates the potential possibilities of a foreign language as an aspect to provide those trained with continual formation of a healthy lifestyle and examines the work done within the frame of curriculum and extra-curriculum activities united by one topic.
Highlights
The reform of education which is taking place nowadays in Russia from the pre-school level up to the post-graduate level can provide the favorable conditions for the improvement of children’s health, taking into account risk factors for their health and development, which appear during study and improvements in teaching and educational work for the formation of health culture
The answers show the unformed understanding of the importance of health as a value and the absence of the motivation for healthy lifestyle
In modern conditions the increase of health culture by means of education might be provided by implementation of special subjects as well as by including the questions about healthy lifestyle into the content of other academic courses e.g. through the contextual teaching
Summary
The reform of education which is taking place nowadays in Russia from the pre-school level up to the post-graduate level can provide the favorable conditions for the improvement of children’s health, taking into account risk factors for their health and development, which appear during study and improvements in teaching and educational work for the formation of health culture. Under “health culture”, we understand social-psychological individual activity aimed at promoting, reserving and mastering rules, principles and traditions of healthy lifestyle, turning it into internal needs. Understanding this cultural phenomenon is dubious and it has different interpretational meanings in different social and professional backgrounds [1, 2]. Healthy lifestyle is a means of lifesustaining activity aimed at preserving and improving of health as conditions and pre-requirement of individual being and one’s development
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