ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH DEVELOPMENT IN THE STUDENT COMMUNITY OF HUMANITARIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The article examines the features of the process of professional training of future teachers — educators of preschool children and primary school teachers, in particular, in the development of public health; analyses the experience of the formation of the readiness of students of pedagogical specialties for the development of personal skills of healthy ways of lifestyle and promotion of favorable natural and social environment during pedagogical practice for future professional activities. The presented study uses a set of methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison, contrasting, systematization, generalization), empirical (observation, conversations, questionnaires) for the formation and awareness of public health values in the student community. For a comprehensive study of the issue, materials of conferences, forums, orders on the development of public health in Ukraine are considered. Scholars and specialists determine the main approaches to the development of public health: assessment of the state of public health; protection of health, including ensuring environmental safety, food products; assessment of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (tobacco, alcohol, nutrition and physical activity); information and explanatory activities; enhancing research in the field of health. The goal of scientific research is realised. The results of the work show high efficiency in implementing organizational and pedagogical aspects of the content of educational programs in the professional training of future teachers in the development of public health. Theoretical understanding and the obtained results of practical work with students of the first (Bachelor’s) educational level of specialties 012 “Preschool Education and 013 Primary Education” make it possible to determine the essence and content of the development of elements of public health during the student life of applicants for higher education and for the future professional activities of teachers of preschool and primary education. In our further research on a certain problem, we aim at monitoring the level of public health formation among students of the second (Master’s) educational level and their preparedness to perform the functions of experts to ensure conditions for the implementation of the content of health-saving activities in the Pedagogical Institute