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Abstract

In the process of teaching primary schoolchildren to the basics of a healthy lifestyle the targeted pedagogical work which covers both academic and extracurricular activity and includes corresponding principles, methods, forms and conditions of training and education plays a role of a key element. This present article is devoted to the analysis of the effectiveness of an elective course in the formation of primary schoolchildren’s healthy lifestyle skills in the context of extracurricular activity. The sample consisted of 125 primary school students from school No. 16 and school-lyceum No. 66 of Karaganda city. The experimental group included 67 students, and the control group composed of 58 students. To determine the level of formation of primary schoolchildren’s healthy lifestyle skills such self-assessment methods as test, questionnaires and surveys were used. The corresponding levels of healthy lifestyle skills formation were identified: low, intermediate, and high. The criteria for the levels of healthy lifestyle skills formation were as follows: completeness of knowledge, ideas and concepts about the essence of a healthy lifestyle; depth of understanding of the social and personal significance of a healthy lifestyle; adaptability and sustainability of behavior oriented towards a healthy lifestyle.

The results of the experimental work showed a significant positive dynamic of growth of the levels of healthy lifestyle skills formation according to the criteria “Completeness of knowledge, ideas and concepts about the essence of a healthy lifestyle” and “Depth of understanding of the social and personal significance of a healthy lifestyle” in the experimental group, while the changes in the control group were not so significant. At the same time, the difference in indicators in both groups according to the criterion “Adaptability and sustainability of behavior oriented towards a healthy lifestyle” was not so evident‎.

Keywords: Primary schoolchildren, Health, Healthy lifestyle skills, Extracurricular activity, Elective course, Pedagogical conditions

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