Inter- curricular integration of defense of Ukraine and physical education in a general secondary education institution

The article updates the problem of implementing inter-curricular integration between the defense of Ukraine and physical culture for the formation of holistic knowledge in senior students. It is proven that the priority ideas of implementing inter-curricular integration are the personal orientation of education, generalized methods of activity, systematicity and problematic nature of learning, and reflection of activity. It is found that integrated teaching of the defense of Ukraine and physical culture in senior classes is based on a variety of methods and forms that correspond to the age characteristics and level of preparation of students. The obtained data allowed to substantiate and develop an experimental program for the implementation of interdisciplinary integration in the process of teaching the defense of Ukraine and physical culture. To fill the structural elements of the program for the implementation of interdisciplinary integration of the defense of Ukraine and physical culture, three types of interdisciplinary tasks were developed and implemented, which correspond to the didactic structure of competencies: knowledge, activity, and value orientations. The criteria for the effectiveness of interdisciplinary integration of the defense of Ukraine and physical culture were the dynamics of the results of the educational and cognitive activities of the studied students. The decrease in low and increase in average and high levels of educational and cognitive activity of students in the experimental class allowed us to obtain an objective picture of the effectiveness of the proposed program. The results obtained allow us to assert that the objectives of the study have been achieved, scientific assumptions have been experimentally confirmed.