DESIGNING THE HEALTH-SAVING EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF A PEDAGOGICAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN THE CONTEXT OF TRAINING STUDENTS IN TECHNOLOGIES OF AGE-RELATED PROGRAMMING OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article theoretically substantiates the conceptual and methodological foundations for designing a health-preserving educational environment in pedagogical higher education institutions, which determine the content, conditions, and organizational mechanisms for training students in age-related programming technologies for physical activity. The research relevance stems from structural transformations in higher pedagogical education, the need to adapt to demographic, epidemiological, and socio-cultural challenges, and the existing contradictions between the declared health-preserving orientation of educational processes and their fragmented practical implementation. The study aims to theoretically justify the principles of environmental design as a determinant of students' competence formation. The methodological framework comprises a complex of general scientific and specialized methods: idealization, formalization, axiomatic approach, historical-logical analysis, ascent from abstract to concrete, pedagogical design, and synergetic modeling. The study reveals the architecture of the health-preserving environment as an integrated didactic system that integrates normative-target, content-technological, spatial-infrastructural, communicative-value, and reflexive-diagnostic components. Five methodological design principles are substantiated: systematicity, age differentiation, practice orientation, subjectivity, and continuity. A cyclical algorithm of pedagogical design and a four-component structure of target competence (cognitive, operational-technological, value-motivational, reflexive-prognostic) are proposed. It is demonstrated that the synergetic integration of environmental components transforms fragmented health practices into a systematic instrument for professional training, ensuring that future teachers are ready to manage physical activity across diverse age groups. The obtained results address the identified research gap and establish a theoretical foundation for empirical verification of the model.