The educational potential of active games in shaping physical culture and a healthy lifestyle among schoolchildren

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Authors: O. V. Sopotnytska, Олександр Непша, H.P. Sukhanova
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Abstract

School age is one of the key stages in a person's life, during which the foundations of physical health are laid and the system of cultural and motor skills necessary for its strengthening, improvement and preservation throughout later life is formed.In this regard, the ultimate goal of physical education should be to achieve an adequate level of health and the formation of physical culture as a component of the overall culture of future adults.Play is a specific type of activity for children that is conscious and proactive in nature and aimed at achieving a conditional goal voluntarily accepted by the participants.In the process of play, both the physical and spiritual needs of the child are satisfied, the intellectual sphere is developed and volitional qualities are formed.Play corresponds to the age-related characteristics of the child's organism and acts as a kind of environment for the development of moral and physical traits.Play creates conditions for pedagogical influence on the children's group without

Fields of Study & Subjects

Physical Education and Training Studies Child Development and Education Physical Education and Pedagogy

Publication details

Journal / source
Publishing House "Education and Science" s.r.o. eBooks
Publication date
13 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Book chapter