Способи оптимізації фізичного виховання студентів закладів вищої освіти: педагогічний дискурс

The socio‐political changes that have taken place in Ukraine have significantly changed the essence of the professional activity of physical education teachers. The modernization of the process of training physical education teachers in higher education institutions is of exceptional importance, where students master a complex of knowledge, skills and abilities, their professional development, interests, professional motives and value orientations are formed, which ends with the development of a professional and pedagogical position. The article reveals the peculiarities of the formation of scientific knowledge regarding the methods of optimizing physical education of students of higher education institutions of Ukraine in pedagogical research. It has been established that at the present stage there has been an increased interest in studying ways to improve physical education of students of higher education institutions, which is evidenced by the works of modern researchers, who emphasize the need to improve the content and methods of training future physical education teachers. A significant number of studies on the problem of organizing the process of physical education in higher education institutions indicate the need to find modern means, new technologies that can increase the level of motivation of students to engage in physical exercises, will be aimed at forming in them a high culture of health, the development of physical qualities. Physical education should form universal values of health in the younger generation.Scientists are unanimous in the fact that the mandatory conditions for increasing the effectiveness of physical education of students are: sufficient highly qualified personnel; information and scientific and methodological support of the educational process, enhanced by modern information and communication technologies; sufficient financial support; close connection with the system of training specialists as a whole, school and extracurricular physical education, valeology, physical recreation, preventive medicine, physiology and psychology, life safety, ecology It was found that at the present stage there is still a lack of a holistic understanding of the genesis of scientific thought on the problem of optimizing physical education of students of higher education institutions of Ukraine. Prospects for further scientific development of the specified problem are seen in conducting historiographical research in the direction of studying the features of training future physical education teachers for health‐preserving activities.