Leisure and recreational activities of student youth in the context of health-preservation

Abstract

The article examines leisure and health-improving activities of student youth in the context of maintaining health by means of health-improving fitness and recreational tourism. The aim of the work was to identify the main aspects of leisure and recreational activities of student youth in the context of health preservation; determination of methodological approaches to the preparation of student youth for the organization of leisure and recreational activities by means of health fitness and recreational tourism. The study participants were 386 students of a higher educational institution in Ukraine. The experimental study was carried out in three stages, each of which used different research methods. These were: a closed questionnaire of the need for achievements by Yu. Orlov, the test "Assessment of communication skills and organizational abilities" by V. Sinyavsky and B. Fedorishin, the methodology "Diagnosis of the level of empathy" by I. M. Yusupov, the method of the level of expression and directionality of reflection by M. Grant). As a result, the introduction of methodological approaches to the preparation of student youth for the organization of leisure and health-improving activities by means of health-improving fitness and recreational tourism significantly influenced the increase in the general level of formation of motivational needs, cognitive, creative-activity and evaluative-reflective components. The selected criteria, indicators, methods and diagnostic tools for the formation of the readiness of future specialists in physical culture and sports for the organization of leisure and rest covered all the characteristics of the studied phenomenon. They were interrelated and, in their unity, reflected the effectiveness of the readiness formation process, as well as differentiation according to the corresponding levels. Thus, the implemented methodological approaches contributed to the high-quality training of future specialists for the organization of leisure and recreational activities by means of health fitness and recreational tourism, especially in a pandemic.The educational direction of the organization of the educational process provided for updating and expanding the content of the following academic disciplines: "Recreational physical activity and physical rehabilitation", "Fitness with teaching methods", "Sports and pedagogical improvement in fitness", "Tourism", "Outdoor and entertaining games", "Musical-rhythmic education and the basics of health-improving physical education", "Modern sports and health-improving technologies." A complex combination of traditional teaching methods with innovative ones is proposed, aimed at modeling professional situations associated with leisure and entertainment activities of future bachelors of physical culture and sports, and a health self-control diary has been developed.