Developing cultural awareness in future teachers of physical education: current situation, issues, prospects

The paper deals with the specifics of development of common cultural competence of students majoring in physical culture and sport. Federal state educational standard of the third generation, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, involves development of common cultural competencies that are important for the implementation of the personality program development of a modern expert and a trainer. The value of common cultural competence in the system of modern education increases because of personality-oriented education paradigm, in which the society requires active, capable of self-development and self-education professionals, especially in areas that are vital for the development of Russian society and the state. The paper shows that the development of fitness has formed such a question as fitness pedagogy: it is necessary to determine a set of professional and general cultural competence, content and curriculum framework for future professionals in the field of fitness, to find necessary common cultural competences and how they contribute to the development of the future experts in fitness, how to interact with the professional and general cultural competence in the educational process. Solving this problem will allow to reform the system of experts training in a most optimal and efficient way and will help to realize national objectives to preserve the nation’s health.