Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In the education system, physical culture and sport are an important component aimed at preserving learners’ health and developing healthy lifestyle habits and physical activity. However, the effectiveness of this work is reduced due to a set of interrelated factors. These include insufficient learner motivation for regular participation in physical education, a habit of sedentary living, unequal access to quality sports infrastructure and equipment, limited time within the school timetable, varying levels of fitness and health status, and the need to adapt workloads with regard to inclusion and safety. The formation of a healthy lifestyle culture is further complicated by factors caused by crisis conditions and environmental constraints. First of all, this concerns the destruction or damage of sports and educational infrastructure (gyms, sports grounds, swimming pools), staffing and resource shortages (lack of specialists, teacher overload, lack of equipment), limited access to safe spaces for physical activity, and disruptions to logistics and learning routines (interruptions due to air-raid alerts, distance and blended learning formats). In addition, psycho-emotional burdens have an added impact: chronic stress, anxiety, exhaustion, decreased learning motivation and self-regulation, which reduces young people’s readiness for systematic physical activity and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Under these conditions, there is a need for a systematic analysis of the problems of physical culture and sport in work with learners, as well as identification of the factors that reduce the effectiveness of physical culture, health-promoting, and sports activities. Particular importance is attached to modernizing the content, forms, and methods of physical education, which involves a transition to competency-based, flexible, and learner-centered models of physical education implemented within the educational process.
Authors: Mykola Tymchyk, Valeriia Masol, Natalia Kasich
Language: English
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7140738484