Ideas of folk pedagogy in the field of a healthy lifestyle in the professional training of teachers of preschool and primary education

In modern socio-cultural conditions, the demand for folk experience in physical education and the formation of a healthy lifestyle is increasing. Objectives of the article: to analyze the pedagogical baggage of folk pedagogy from the standpoint of ideas in the field of physical education and a healthy lifestyle, to identify the degree of students’ readiness to implement the ideas of folk pedagogy in the field of a healthy lifestyle, to adjust the content of academic disciplines with the inclusion of folk values in them in the field of a healthy lifestyle. The analysis of proverbs and sayings made it possible to single out several aspects of a healthy lifestyle presented in them: the importance of health, movement, nutrition in human life, the role of labor activity, the relevance of hardening. The article systematizes the main factors in the formation of a healthy lifestyle among the younger generation: practical (folk games), value-semantic (traditions and customs), verbal-normative (proverbs and sayings). In order to determine the readiness of students to use the traditions and means of folk pedagogy in the physical education of preschoolers and younger schoolchildren, a survey of 95 first and second year students of the full-time and correspondence departments of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology was conducted in three profiles: “Preschool education. Primary education”, “Preschool education”, “Primary education. Additional education. The results of the survey made it possible to outline the directions for including the wisdom of folk education in the content of the professional training of future teachers. The results of the survey showed the expediency of including sections in the disciplines of vocational training that reveal the views of peoples on a healthy lifestyle, traditional folk means of physical education and the methodology for their use in kindergartens and elementary schools; raising the general cultural level of students in the study of the disciplines “Ethnopedagogy”, “Formation of a polyethnic culture of younger students”, regional culture.

folk pedagogy, healthy lifestyle, students, professional activity, folk games, educator, primary school teacher