The Formation of a Healthy Lifestyle in the Student Youth as a Complex Task of Ukrainian Education

The research deals with the problem of the formation of a healthy lifestyle in the student youth of Ukraine. The aim of the research is to develop appropriate organizational and pedagogical conditions providing the reduction of bad habits in the students, as well as enhancing their somatic health and improving their healthy lifestyle. The tasks of the research stemming from its aim are as follows: studying the peculiarities of the intensity of students' physical exercise activity, their going in for sports and their motivation for corresponding activities; studying the peculiarities of students' healthy lifestyle and their somatic health; developing and experimentally proving the organizational and pedagogical conditions for improving students' healthy lifestyle. The study of mentioned characteristics of the students has been realized due to their self-assessment. The participants in the pedagogical experiment have been the students at the universities of Kyiv and university teachers as experts. The methodological foundations of the study relate to scientific concepts, philosophical, psychological and pedagogical ideas concerning the problems of formation a healthy lifestyle in all participants in educational process. The organizational and pedagogical conditions for improving students' healthy lifestyle were developed with the help of theoretical analysis of mentioned problems as well as with involving teachers-experts from higher education institutions. Three groups of organizational and pedagogical conditions were differentiated: axiological, information-cognitive, implementation ones. It has been shown that one of the main complex areas of formation of a healthy lifestyle of student youth is connected with the professional activities of the staff of educational institutions directed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, as well as at developing the system of prevention of the impact of harmful factors on the health of the students. Therefore, intensification of physical culture and sports, improving students' health, combating their bad habits can be achieved not only by a certain explanatory work of the teachers, but also by the whole system of organizational and pedagogical conditions. The pedagogical experiment has proved that due to the implementation of pertinent organizational and pedagogical conditions the students of the experimental group, in contrast to the control group, have a positive trend in both physical health and healthy behaviour.